Subject: Re: Lynx Bug?
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/08/2002 17:33:42
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:52:37PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:16:56AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> >
> > I have the same problem. Currently with lynx-2.8.4.1.2 and lynx-2.8.5.0.5
> > both using /usr/lib/libcurses.so.3.6.
> >
>
> OK - so this means you are on a 1.5.x system, no? What terminal do
> you have the problem with? xterm? console? both?
>
> I have had a look at this problem in the past but could not reproduce
> it, I suspect that the terminal capabilities are not being restored
> correctly but I do not know why only lynx shows up the bug.
I passed it by the lynx-dev list but it's still to nebulous a
phenomenon to say much. Tom Dickey, the coordinating developer
of Lynx, suggested:
1) it was a NetBSD native curses problem
2) may have started with a release more recent than a year ago.
See:
http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month082002/msg00022.html
henry nelson