LYNX-DEV Re: Dired code (was Re: Bugs with Lynx 2.6 / SunOS

[Martin Voges]

On 28/10/96 Klaus Weide <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Martin Voges wrote:
>> [...] Can you confirm that there are bugs
>> with [...] DIRED mode?
>>  
>> I gave details in messages archived at  
>> http://lynx.cc.ukans.edu/lynx-dev/9609/0808.html and
>> http://lynx.cc.ukans.edu/lynx-dev/9610/0045.html, [...]
>
>I can confirm that I experienced the same problems with
>dired mode on Linux, none of them are specific to SunOS. 
>There were more problems with dired tagging, including
>memory corruption.

Klaus,

Many thanks for following this up - much appreciated!  (And
a great relief that it wasn't just my dumb mistake :)

>I seem to have fixed most problems, and will send patches
>to the list  later.  [...]

Excellent.  I'll report on the patch success to the best of
my ability when I have time to implement it in a week or so.

>Also, some of the problems may show up only (or more
>obviously) with certain combinations of settings. The
>combination of -DDIRED_SUPPORT with -DLONG_LIST, without
>-DNO_PARENT_DIR_REFERENCE, and with the option
>
> l(I)st directory style       : Mixed style
>
>seems one most likely to provoke weird behaviour.

Many of which apply here :(

Thanks again.
Martin


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