Re: lynx-dev non-interactive lynx

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
>  
> > >   Hi all,  
> > >   I'm just wondering why the new version of lynx (2.8) does not  
> > >   allow the redirection of stdin as follows:  
> >  
> > there was some problem which was fixed around the release of 2.8.1 (last 
> > fall).  2.8.2 should work properly 
> >  
> > >   cat commands.txt | lynx  
>  
> Also this can depend on how lynx was compiled: it may behave different 
> whether it uses the slang library or ncurses.   If I understand right 
> what he wants to do, ncurses should work better. 

hmm - second look (Friday's are bad for thinking).  He's piping into Lynx.
so it's a different one.  As you stated though, ncurses should work better
because slang tries to open /dev/tty, right?

>  
>    Klaus 


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