Re: LYNX-DEV Control-Z and SIGSTOP mysteries

[Foteos Macrides]

"Hiram Lester, Jr." <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Wed, 21 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>
>> "Hiram Lester, Jr." <address@hidden> wrote:
>>      There *is* miscommunication in this thread because from your
>> original message simply saying the ^Z doesn't work I had assumed that
>> it really doesn't work, i.e., you don't suspend Lynx, but simply end
>> up with a blank screen.  However, in your last message to Klaus, you
>> referred to "fg", which implies that you did suspend, and are talking
>> about what happens when you come back.  Presumeably, the HP curses is
>> clearing but not repainting the screen.
>
>In my original message I mentioned "resuming" after a suspend and didn't
>mention 'fg' explicitly, so that was probably the problem.  Anyway yes
>this is precisely the problem.
>
>>      So, the HP curses possibly is failing to repaint the
>> screen on return from the suspend, but "thinks" it did, and
>> is like the VMS curses or slang so that it doesn't output
>> it again when it "thinks" it's already there, and the ^L
>> is not setting clearok(curscr, YES) 'cuz it's not VMS or
>> slang, so you can't force it.
>
>Yes, from the behavior, I'd say that is what it is doing.  Any
>suggestions? Should I try adding another condition to the VMS and SLANG
>(SNAKE, I guess) to LYKrefresh so that clearok(curscr, TRUE) gets set for
>HP?  If that works, then I guess you'd have to refresh manually upon
>fg'ing...  It seems that if this were the problem that going to another
>page (backing up, selecting a link, paging down) or anything else which
>should completely redraw the screen would fix things, but it doesn't.

        Yes, if paging, etc., still yields blank pages, then the
curses addstr() and addch() functions just plain don't work any
more.
                                Fote

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