Re: lynx-dev non-interactive lynx

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
[ attributions omitted ]  
> > > >         Hi all,  
> > > >         I'm just wondering why the new version of lynx (2.8) does not  
> > > >         allow the redirection of stdin as follows:  
> > >  
> > > >         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?

Assuming that the command he wants to pipe into is really just "lynx",
and commands.txt contains keystroke bytes (not really text) - yes, that's
what I was thinking of.  (it would be an unusual way of using lynx non-
interactively.)

If he omitted something, and the command is really "lynx -dump -" or
"lynx -" or similar, then the slang/curses difference may not apply.

   Klaus