Re: LYNX-DEV TODO page (was Re: #38...)

[Foteos Macrides]

"T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
>if you do that, use 'napms()' if it's present -- 'sleep()' will have the
>undesirable effect of not flushing out the screen contents.

        The current active developers obviously should have the major
say about the principles which will be followed in Lynx development,
but a principle of the past several years has been to favor universally
portable functions from external system libraries, and otherwise deal
with coding needs internally.  Here's what the solaris man says about
napms():

curs_kernel(3X)  Miscellaneous Library Functions  curs_kernel(3X)

NAME
     curs_kernel, [...], napms - low-level curses routines

SYNOPSIS
     [...]
     int napms(int ms);

MT-LEVEL
     Unsafe

DESCRIPTION
     The following routines  give  low-level  access  to  various
     curses  functionality.   These  routines typically are used
     inside library routines.
     [...]


        Note that fflush(), like sleep(), is considered a universally
portable external library function (but so is remove() :) :).

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