Re: LYNX-DEV Save to disk glitch followup.

[Foteos Macrides]

"T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> When i download something then save it to disk, the screen
>> goes black at the bottom for a instant at the end of the
>> save.
>it sounds as if you're getting a clear-screen momentarily as a result of
>the initialization of curses (slang in this case).  That's a combination
>of the terminal description (usually contains a clear in the initialization
>string) and the library assumptions (it may clear the screen even if there's
>nothing in the initialization string).
> 
>There is not much (portable) that you can do about that.
>
>> This is with lynx2-7-1 and the recent fotemods "7-27-97".
>> make linux-slang on linux
>> 
>> 
>> It seems to be this below from LYDownload.c that causes the glitch.
>> 
>>         fflush(stderr);
>>         fflush(stdout); 
>>     /*  stop_curses(); */   <---
>>      system(command);
>>         fflush(stdout);     
>>      fflush(stderr);
>>         start_curses();
>> #endif /* VMS */
>>      chmod(buffer, 0600);

        I added that intentionally because the DOWNLOADER could be a
script with messaging, and that messaging would otherwise be trashed.

                                Fote

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