Re: lynx-dev INSTALLATION file changes (was: Fix --disable-trace, #includes)

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> > The problem is that not all terminal emulators support alternate
> > character sets.
> 
> No, that in itself is not the problem: if ncurses is informed that a given
> "alternative character" isn't supported by the terminal type, it uses
> approximations ('|', '-', '+' for box drawing).

Do you mean that ncurses itself uses "|", "-" and "+" when there is no acsc
or ac in termcap or terminfo? If yes, then I presume that

#define BOXVERT '|'
#define BOXHORI '-'

are redundant and useless.

> By the way, my xterm(1x) manpage (presumably from XFree86) mentions "the
> vt100 foreground and background colors" in one place, under the -dc
> options...

Xterm has many command-line options related to colors. Anyway, xterm is
Thomas' domain.

Ismael
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