On Wed, 15 Mar 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > I also like slang better. It's lighter and faster than ncurses. To
> > dispaly the same thing, lynx/ncurses uses a lot more resources than
> > lynx/slang, which slows down the display. For example, when displaying
> > the same page, lynx/ncurses sends 3024 characters (control and printable)
> > to the screen, while lynx/slang sends only 1266 characters.
> 
> I'm assuming you're still doing what you did before:  using a non-bce
> terminfo on a terminal that can support bce - ncurses therefore paints more
> of the background explicitly (slang doesn't support non-bce terminals, such
> as dtterm).

I don't remember if my terminal supports back-color-erase or not but I use ut
in my termcap. I'm attaching the display of both lynx/slang and lynx/ncurses.
See if you can see what's wrong with ncurses.

Ismael
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