Re: LYNX-DEV New development code

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:
> 
> > Great! The compile finished and it worked well. My color setting have no
> > problems either now. Good work guys!
> 
> The ncurses binaries I have compiled from that code ingnore the background
> color (both before and after the last changes from Tom).  Or rather, they
> take the background from COLOR:0 everywhere.  (TERM is linux, using the
> same binary terminfo file on both sun4 and linux with same effect.)
> Does anybody else observe this?
> 
> I wil check that I have the right terminfo file and the right curses.h and
> library in the right place.  Still, is this an expected effect with some
> versions?

I thought Tom had said that this was part of ncurses and svr4 curses that
they only had 8 colors, and slang pushed the package to 16, and that was
what the fix was for.  Is so, it would only affect slang binaries and not
ncurses.

Just out of curiosity, do these patches also give color on svr4 curses?
Was the info I sent on HP's color curses helpful, and is there a way to
build a color binary (or attempt to do so) on HP-UX?  I haven't had a
chance to try the code yet... :(  Too many tests and programs due (and
running late on all of them... sigh).  Maybe next week during Spring
Break. :)

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