On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:31:27AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > i have been using xv to view images with Lynx as defined in .mailcap . > today, i tried kview instead, which is a KDE application & a bit better. > > occasionally in the past, Lynx has collapsed with a segfault message > when trying to activate xv to present an image; > as it wasn't reproducible, i picked up the bits & ignored it. > however, while kview seems generally to work very well with Lynx, > i have had a couple of cases of images causing segfaults > & one -- today's Doonesbury cartoon in the Yahoo Reuter news site: > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cx/uc/20010101/db/db020101l.html?u -- , > which has repeated, 1st time with a segfault, 2nd with this message:
for instance (attached) Lynx Version 2.8.5dev.5 (18 Nov 2001) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.5a Built on linux-gnu Dec 28 2001 12:17:37 Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors. Distributed under the GNU General Public License. See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information. See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx. See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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