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From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Lynx 2.6
Date: 27 Sep 1996 02:50:02 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
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X-Posted-By: bkogawa@206.165.5.107 (bkogawa)

Michael Holling <myke@lm.com> writes:

>Just compiled Lynx 2.6 for FreeBSD 2.1R.  It works, but it doesn't do a
>good job of highlighting.  The links are all displayed in inverse, and the
>only clue as to where you're at is a block cursor next to them that's hard
>to see.  The version that comes preinstalled (I think it was 2.4) looked
>much nicer and highlighted only the link that was currently selected.
>Does anyone know what I have to tweak to get lynx to use the full
>capabilities of the terminal?  I've used Lynx on other machines that have
>three different text intensities and other enhancements...

You're probably looking for the ncurses version.  Compile the ncurses
version for FreeBSD instead of the curses one.

>-- 
>- Mike 
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bryan k. ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>  <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>