From:	gwynn AT msn DOT globaldialog DOT com (John Schucker)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	lynx 2.7 and pdcurses under DOS.
Date:	15 Mar 1997 21:30:29 GMT
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For anybody who's interested, I was able to make lynx 2.7 under DOS.  
What you need to do is get lyxn 2.7, and djgpp.zip from:
www.fdisk.com/doslynx/
and download them and unzip them.  In lynx2-7/www/library/impelmen/commonma
change /.created to /created
change back to lynx2-7 and run the djgpp.bat.  Oh, before you do that, 
you'll need bash and ln, and you'll need to make a symbolic link to bash, 
called sh, and you may need to alter the makefile to tell it where sh 
lives, but that is in commonma as well, I think. 

 Now on to my question.  
  
I want to make curses use BIOS writes instead of directvideo.  There is a 
variable in the struuct SCREEN direct_video, and an extern SCREEN 
_cursvar;.  All BIOS should require to work is something like:
_cursvar.direct_video = FALSE;
but when I do that, no matter what file I put it in, lycurses.c, 
lymain.c, etc., i get "parse error before '.'"
If I just try direct_video = FALSE;
I get complaints at linktime about multiple definitions of direct_video.

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