Re: LYNX-DEV lynx on the web

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Ken Henriksen wrote:

> I'm using the Lynx browser. For the most part it works fine (when using
> mail and in my shell directory) but when I go on the web it sends
> characters to my screen that make it impossible to read anything. The
> problem character is the one with ascii code #15, it prints as a kind of
> star, although not the same as the asterisk. 

That is the ^O character.  VT100-compatible terminals and terminal
emulations normally understand this as a command to set the terminal
to a "more normal" state.  They don't print any character for it, normally
it doesn't have any effect.

So if your comm software is displaying this as a character, instead of
ignoring it, it is either not trying to behave like a vt100 (or similar)
terminal, or it is doing this in a very broken way.  You may be able to
configure it so that it will emulate a vt100, or switch to a different
package.  (It is hard to figure out more since you don't write what
software you are using.)

> It seems to me that this character is toggling enhanced text mode on and
> off. But it is also screwing up my screen big time!  I'd rather not have
> enhanced text if this is the cost. Please tell me how I can change this
> behaviour as my comm software has no way to filter this character. 

I am not sure what you mean with "enhanced text".  We also don't know
which version of Lynx you are using.

What special characters, control characters, and escape sequences Lynx
sends to your terminal (or comm software) depends on the terminal type.
You can tell Lynx to assume a different terminal type by invoking it as
(for example)

      lynx -term=vt100

or 
      lynx -term=ansi

If no -term option is given, Lynx uses the TERM environment variable,
or asks the user if there is no TERM variable.  You may have to experiment
with different terminal types, or better try to get help from the people
who maintain the system where you run Lynx.  Which terminal types Lynx
recognizes, and how it treats them, depends on files outside of Lynx
(terminfo or termcap files) which have to be installed correctly.
There may be a terminal type available to you which does not make Lynx
send ^O characters, and which describes better the comm software you
are using.


   Klaus


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