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Re: lynx-dev Most users' experience (was: 2.8.3dev.8 patch 3...)
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Most users' experience (was: 2.8.3dev.8 patch 3...) |
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Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:34:32 -0400 (EDT) |
> On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 03:56:06PM -0400, Gregory A Lundberg wrote:
> > The darned thing scrolls the screen on every link, rendering the page
> > unreadable. Does not do it with the Redhat RPM, only when I try to install
> > the offical tarball from lynx-dev. Makes browsing an FTP index very hard
> > .. have to count lines and hope I get it right. We won't even talk about
> > what Microsoft's site looks like; I take it as a given they do'nt know what
> > they're doing, so I don't care if it's unreadable.
>
> I'll throw in my $0.02: my experience has been that Lynx works on
> every UNIX system I've tried without any of the funny behaviour you
> mentioned. I've had great success with SCO, HPUX, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DEC
> UNIX, SGI, oh, and SunOS. I also understand how to set TERM, which helps
> :-)
It's a little hard to visualize (probably a mismatched $TERM which is
compensated for by the rpm configuration ignoring it in favor of 'vt100').
> <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/us/md/lib/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm>
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