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-rw-r--r--contrib/ChangeLog4
-rwxr-xr-xcontrib/gennews5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
index 6a4af87..057f9c2 100644
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-06-13 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * gennews: Set TERM to vt100 for Lynx.
+
2001-06-13 Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
* release: Remove.
diff --git a/contrib/gennews b/contrib/gennews
index 784bdf3..ac7abdf 100755
--- a/contrib/gennews
+++ b/contrib/gennews
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ echo $header
for file in $files; do
wfile=$website$file
echo $wfile
- lynx -dump $wfile
+ # We lie to Lynx about the kind of terminal in use because we
+ # want to get consistent output everywhere, and we want this
+ # script to work even when it is not run interactively.
+ env TERM=vt100 lynx -dump $wfile
echo $header
done