On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:22:18PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > I have a cronjob which runs Lynx to get some information and sends it
> > to me via email. This has stopped working with a recent Lynx upgrade;
> > now I just get email saying "your terminal lacks the ability to
> > clear the screen" or something like that (I don't remember the wording).
> >
> > The script uses lynx -dump, which should run without a controlling
> > terminal.
>
> Last I checked [*], it doesn't really require a terminal, controlling or
> otherwise, it just wants a non-dumb $TERM. You can fake it.
_how_ dumb? I just ran this
TERM=dumb lynx -dump .
where TERM is
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/d/dumb
dumb|80-column dumb tty,
am,
cols#80,
bel=^G, cr=^M, cud1=^J, ind=^J,
You're apparently talking about the slang configuration...
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