Re: LYNX-DEV lynx using WYSE 50 terminals

[Jonathan Sergent]

Hi.

In message <address@hidden>, 
Doug Chanco writes:
 ]     Hello,
 ]          I am a trying to get LYNX to run on WYSE 50 terminals connected
 ] to a RS6000 running AIX version 4.  LYNX works but the highlight
 ] bar/arrow keys are not working, although on a pc everything works fine,
 ] I am assuming that is because it is using VT100 emulation.  I looked at
 ] the keymap.h file and I think that the problem is that WYSE uses some
 ] strange combinations for the arrow keys, and I'm not sure what is wrong
 ] with the highlighting of the various links.  I am really new to UNIX and
 ] LYNX so any help would be greatly appreciated.

This question has come up many times in the past.  Lynx does not like
the Wyse 50 very well.

Here is the recipe for success I have had with the Wyse 50's at Purdue:

        (1) Use a recent development version of Lynx (from 
            http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/current/).

        (2) Use slang instead of curses.  To do this, build libslang.a 
            from the sources at ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/ 
            ... then use --screen=slang option in the Lynx 
            configuration.

slang is the only thing I've gotten to do inverse correctly with the
Wyse 50.  I'm not sure why; I tried it once and it worked so I didn't
bother to try to figure it out.  The Wyse 50 uses "magic cookies" 
before and after highlighted text, and the way you specify text 
attributes isn't like the ANSI model at all, and this is part of what
has caused problems in the past.  It might work with ncurses 4.1, 
which I must sheepishly admit that I have not tried for some time.

If you do this and still have problems, I can mail you the 
termcap/terminfo entries I'm using; they're the ones that come with 
ncurses...

        (3) Instead of using the arrow keys, either
                (a) turn on vi keys, or
                (b) use the numbers on the keypad as arrow keys.  Lynx 
                    will let you use the 8, 6, 4, and 2 on the number 
                    keypad as arrow keys if the "K)eypad mode" option 
                    in the o)ptions screen is set to "Numbers act as 
                    arrows".

The arrows on the Wyse 50 send ^H, ^J, ^K, and ^L, which tend to 
conflict with other things (backspace, line feed, form feed).  There 
may be some termcap/terminfo incantations that will allow you to use 
them without making curses think you are pressing different keys, but 
I wouldn't know.  I use the vi keys, personally...

You might also try looking at the archives at 

        http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/

for responses to this question from the past.


-- 
Jonathan Sergent / address@hidden / address@hidden
;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE:  Send a mail message to address@hidden
;                  with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
;                  quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;