Re: lynx-dev Re: Sun/X-term display problem

[T.E.Dickey]

> Hi all,
>   This is further to my quest for help on the Lynx problem mentioned below:
>   I'm using the "7 bit approximations (US-ASCII)" character set.
>   When I start-up Lynx, and try to access any Web site(eg: www.yahoo.com),
>   I simply get a blank acreen with the command line at the bottom. Lynx
>   seems to be getting the data, but nothing appears. On the other-hand,
>   I can open local HTML files fine, on Lynx.

usually this is a screen that contains data that Lynx won't display, e.g.,
a badly formatted comment which wipes out the rest of the file.  (try the
toggle for "historical comments"): '
also ` (minimal comment parsing).

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Manju
> >
> >> I recently installed Lynx on a Sun Ultra-2 workstation (Sunos 5.5.1)
> >> When I start up Lynx and type an URL, it gets the data alright,
> >> but nothing gets displayed on the screen.
> >> I'm using an xterm, with K-shell.
> >> Has this anything to do with the character sets?
> >> I'm not really sure what's the right set to use.
> >
> >i can't help with this: it would help others,
> >if you could give sample URLs for which you have a problem;
> >what charset(s) are you trying to use?
> >also, be sure you are using the latest Lynx:
> >release 2-8-2 :  www.slcc.edu/lynx/release/
> >development 2-8-3dev.18 :  sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/ .
> >
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