Re: LYNX-DEV DOS bugs for ac-0.104

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> Version 104 seems to function well in DOS, as far as I can see so far.
> The name change for the CHANGES files works, but the old CHANGES-* files
> are still in the distribution.
ok - Jim's script doesn't purge obsolete stuff (I think it's sufficient if
I remove the old ones from the staging directory).
 
> There is a cosmetic defect that came in somewhere between version 93
> and 98, probably when standard output was made binary. The message
> printed after spawning a shell in DOS began to start in the middle
> of the screen, where the SPAWNING_MSG finished. The \n at the end of
> SPAWNING_MSG no longer returns the cursor to the left margin. The
> following patch fixes this, although I am not sure why a separate
> message and screen clearing are needed after printing the SPAWNING_MSG
> at all.
If you're writing while curses is active, it should (SVr4 and SVr3) have
set the terminal mode so that OCRNL is off, making this behavior.  (It's
normal).  But why are you using a printf?
 
>                              Doug
> 
> *** lynx2-7-1/src/LYMainLoop.c        Mon Nov 24 11:17:20 1997
> --- lynx2-7-1/src/LYMainLoop.c.new    Thu Dec 25 11:35:20 1997
> ***************
> *** 4669,4676 ****
> --- 4669,4682 ----
>                    */
>                   *stderr = LYOrigStderr;
>   #ifdef DOSPATH      
> + #ifdef __DJGPP__
> +             delay(500);
> +             ScreenClear();
> +             printf("\r%s","Type EXIT to return to Lynx.");
> + #else
>       system("cls");  
>       system("echo Type EXIT to return to Lynx.");
> + #endif /* __DJGPP__ */
>   #ifdef __DJGPP__
>         __djgpp_set_ctrl_c(0);
>         _go32_want_ctrl_break(1);
> 
> __
> Doug Kaufman
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