Re: lynx-dev Problem with ^Z suspending: more ncurses

[dickey]

> The problem I was having for such a long time on Solaris and plaguing 
> Larry and the list about was that after exiting Lynx the "text" color, 
> and, worse the background color of the status bar when I used Rob's 
> style sheet code, would stay on the screen. Normally when I log in, my 
> screen is white text on a black screen. It's always been that way since 
> I started off with a funky telnet on Fujitsu FMR70s. Thought it was some 
> kind of default. Not true -- it has to do with the emulation -- some you 
> can change, others are hard coded in. 
>  
> Anyway, dinging around with my terminfo descriptor, I thought wouldn't 
> it be neat if rather than 8 colors, I could use 16. Well that did it! No 
> more "sticking" of colors. AND 256 pairs of colors! All I did was change 
> "colors#8, pairs#64," to "colors#16, pairs#256,". What a discovery. 

hmm - perhaps that's slang (it has some hardcoded assumptions about
bold+color which would be altered if you specify 16 colors).

but what does the terminal description look like (and which terminal emulator)?
the only one I remember seeing from you was the fmr one, which can only
paint 8 colors.
  
> BTW, I think Dave or someone asked about different problems I was having 
> with vi when I moved up to a new hardware version of Solaris. Upgrading 
> to a newer "screen" and replacing the termcap description for it solved 
> all those problems.                       ^^^ 

I had a problem with screen's termcap (not terminfo) description this week.
Got a core dump on OSF/1 3.2 because it was larger than 1023 characters.
You might watch out for that (unless you're linking with GNU termcap).
  
> __Henry 


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