Hi,
after some reflections I decided to upgrade from Lynx beta 0.4 by Derek
J Decker (based on Lynx 2.4.1) and downloaded from Hobbes the 2.8.4
fresh version for os2. I've a simple comment about the recommendation
to install onto an hpfs partition. On that partition unzipping
preserve the long names but it seems that internally Lynx proceeds with
a truncated scheme and so directories and files cannot be accessed.
For instance this definition in the lynx.cfg is not recognized:
HELPFILE:file://localhost/g:/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
I had already noticed that in my previous installation and I solved
that in renaming many files to fit the "8.3" good old scheme ;) with
some drawbacks.
Today I found a more elegant solution (I think it is :) in unzipping the
package onto a fat partition and moving back the Lynx root directory
to the hpfs partition. The 8.3 truncation algorithm seems to be the
same with Unzip and Lynx. All the things work correctly (in particular
the links within the help, user, ... guides). There are very few
collisions on the truncated names: mainly the ansi-color-n definitions
in the terminfo/a directory but it's affordable... The best solution
would be to have an option in Unzipping to make 8.3 names directly
onto an hpfs partition (incredible...) but I'm not aware of the
existence of such an option, do you?
Voila, anyway this port is great and I thank you for the good job.
Regards.
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jj - Samedi 24 Février 2001 --- 14:24:41
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