Re: LYNX-DEV bug

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

What kind of option do you have in mind?

When a program is broken, the only options i know of are:

1. avoid the behavior that causes the break (the old "Doctor, it hurts when
I do this...Then don't _do_ that...That will be $35 please..." syndrone)

2. upgrade the software so that you don't have the problem any longer.

3. live with the problem.

4. in a _few_ cases, change the environment that causes the problem.  Since
I don't keep old versions of lynx around, I am not sure which bug you
might be encountering, but I doubt that
there's much you will be able to do in terms of getting Tcrumpt to change
his/her page - there aer so many things wrong with this page, interms
of unknown attributes, illegal values for tags, overlapping elements, etc.
that it seems unlikely that she/he would be willing to fix the
site.


>From address@hidden  Thu Oct 24 09:35:28 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:32:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joel Hoyle <address@hidden>
To: Jason Baker <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV bug
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Upgrading is not an optionfor me, is there anything elese I could do?


On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Jason Baker wrote:

> In a previous missive, Joel Hoyle wrote:
> > 
> > Dear sirs,
> > 
> > I encountered a bug in Lynx Ver. 2-4-1 link;  
> 
> You should either upgrade to 2.6, or encourage your site administrators
> to do so.  2-4-1 is very, very old. :)
> 
> > I was trying to access:
> > http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~tcrumpt/index.html
> > 
> > Used to be able to access but now it connects and then logs out.
> > 
> > PLEASE HELP!
> 
> Jason
> 
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