Bug 10970 - New Lynx in 6.2 breaks -source when no TERM entry in env
Summary: New Lynx in 6.2 breaks -source when no TERM entry in env
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: lynx
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-04-21 20:05 UTC by jpranevich
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-11 06:58:30 UTC
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Description jpranevich 2000-04-21 20:05:40 UTC 
In RH 6.2, Lynx will complain (and not print anything) when called with the
-source argument when there is no TERM variable set, such as in a crontab.
This breaks some of my cron-based scripts.

This seems to be incorrect behavior. According to the manpage -source just
dumps the (unformatted) source of the page to stdout. There should be no
need for a terminal that can do sursor positions, etc. (as the error
indicates.)

This worked in previous versions of RedHat
Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2000-07-11 06:58:30 UTC 
Same with lynx -dump. This is a nasty problem and it prevented me from getting
some important messages from my cron jobs after I upgraded to RedHat 6.2...
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-04 10:29:29 UTC 
Fixed in 2.8.4-3
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