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

[dickey]

> Let me try to explain. A true VT100 uses 7-bit characters. Its alternate 
> character sets are also 7-bit. When a real VT100 receives the command for 
> changing to another character set, it changes from the "normal" one, ASCII, 
> to another character set. Well, my terminal program doesn't support 
> alternate character sets the way a true VT100 does, but uses 8-bit character 
> sets. So, in its VT102 character set the DEC line-drawing characters are in 
> the 8-bit part of it. When it receives the command for changing to an 
> alternate character set it uses the characters in the 8-bit part. When I use 
> ISO 8859-1, the character that appears when the command for changing to an 
> alternate character set is received it displays the corresponding ISO 8859-1 
> characters. Is it clear now? 

sounds like M$ telnet (it does that much).

(does the vendor for that claim it's vt100?)
  
> Ismael 


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