Re: lynx-dev DOS patch for dev.8

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> I found that telnet was no longer working properly under DOS, probably
> because of changes from WATT-32. Stopping curses before invoking
> telnet seems to fix it. This now works both with MSKERMIT and the
> CUTCP binary, tn3270.exe.

This shoud not be necessary.  Curses gets turned off in getfile()
before the HTLoadAbsolute() that ultimately ends up in remote_session().
So it seems your are turning curses off twice, and then turning it on
twice.  (Unless DJGPP doesn't go through the common code in getfile(),
but I didn't see it being diverted.)

Or is the start/stop_curses loginc in getfile broken?  Then we should
fix it for all systems.

Maybe it makes sense to _move_ the start/stop_curses from getfile() to
further down in the calling sequence, but I don't see any reason why
that should be DOS specific.

If those __djgpp_set_ctrl_c and _go32_want_ctrl_break always have to be
done together with start/stop_curses, shouldn't they become part of the
start/stop_curses functions instead?



          Klaus