Re: LYNX-DEV Control-Z and SIGSTOP mysteries

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Mon, 19 May 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > > This particular binary was built with gcc using the snake target on HP-UX
> > > 9.07 and the standard curses package.  I'm having problems getting the
> > > vanilla code to even compile on 10.20 with gcc (snake3 works).  If I try
> > > ^Z when I first start up lynx, it doesn't work.  When I do a ^L, the
> > > cursor is moved to the top left corner of the screen, and nothing is
> > > displayed.  Hitting 'q' followed by a return or 'Q' or any other
> > > recognized way of quitting lynx does what it is supposed to do, so it
> > > would imply a display problem to me...
> > Perhaps this is just feature of curses.
> > If curses sees that there is noprocessed keypoard input,
> > it stops updating to screen until next refresh.
> normally you're not typing so fast that curses doesn't get a chance to
> write to the screen.  This doesn't sound like one of those cases

Also, the next refresh (via Ctrl-L) does absolutely nothing.

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