Re: lynx-dev terminal emulators, SIGWINCH (was: Danish translation)

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> > > conctere example thatn fails badly, just look to Ms windows termianl  
> > > emulator---you have to reduce the number of lines by one or the damn 
> > > thing  
> > > scrolls and things like emacs, lynx, etc work really badly. vi fials 
> > > badly too. 
> >  
> > Sounds like your lynx is not using a matching terminal description. 
> >  
>  
> MS Terminal/telnet doesn't correctly emulate a VT100 and several attempts, 
> in the past, to find accurate termcap/terminfo descriptions for it have 
> failed.  It seems that people either live with continual ^Ls or use a 
> third party emulator. 

terminfo (this works well enough for people who just want to use vi):

# Tested with WinNT 4.0, the telnet application assumes the screensize is
# 25x80.  This entry uses the 'Terminal' font, to get line-drawing characters.
ms-vt100|MS telnet imitating dec vt100,
        lines#25,
        
acsc=+\020\,\021-\030.^Y0\333`\004a\261f\370g\361h\260i\316j\331k\277l\332m\300n\305o~p\304q\304r\304s_t\303u\264v\301w\302x\263y\363z\362{\343|\330}\234~\376,
        tbc@, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?6c, u9=\E[c,
        use=vt100,

(vt100's of course don't have il1 and dl1, but that's an faq).

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