Re: LYNX-DEV win32

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:

> I think both one and two are because we are using a "passable" curses
> emulation.  I personally feel lucky to have any curses at all, but I am
> still wacking away at the bugs or differences as I find their cause.

Have you looked at the curses package on Virtually Unix?  It was used to
compile ncftp.  Not sure if it supports color or not...

> If you spawn a text mode viewer then yes you have to wait till you
> are done.  This is how lynx works.  Also, just like lynx in X, if you run
> a windows program as a helper app then you can continue.  I have run
> realaudio links and then kept surfing so I know Windows applications don't
> apply. 

Yeah, I noticed it was kinda odd when I used notepad as an editor, and
Lynx prompted me "Send this comment?" before I'd even typed anything. :)

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