Bug 10970 – New Lynx in 6.2 breaks -source when no TERM entry in env

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

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	lynx (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported:	2000-04-21 16:05 EDT by jpranevich
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-07-11 02:58:30 EDT
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Description jpranevich 2000-04-21 16:05:40 EDT

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 02:58:30 EDT

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 06:29:29 EDT

Fixed in 2.8.4-3

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