RE: lynx-dev Spawning an external curses-based program

[Umar Qureshey]

I dunno if this has anything to do with it but my kernel is configured for 0
Unix98 PTYs and I have only vcs0 device file in /dev.  Not too sure if
ncurses uses extra PTYs.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:36 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Spawning an external curses-based program


> 
> Hi,
>   I was wondering if anyone has experienced problem launching an
> ncurses-based external app from lynx.  My application is launched by lynx
> but I do not see any ncurses output on the screen.  In fact, I don't even
> see any output from a printf.  The only way my program can output to the
> screen is to write to stderr.  I know lynx is ncurses-based so I wanted to
> know if anything special needs to be done to make ncurses-based external
> programs work.  I just want rudimentary ncurses functionality, nothing
> fancy.  Any help appreciated.

I do this all the time; it is rare to encounter problems.  (more information
may allow me to see it break, though)

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