Re: LYNX-DEV Compiling on SGI: unzip bug?

[Philip Webb]

970101 Larry Virden wrote:
> Did you ever get things to work?  I have no experience with SGI, but I might
> be persuaded without a lot of arm twisting to help you take a look.
> Do you have a command called script in your path?
-- yes, thanx for reminding me: i have a note re it, but never used it before.
> Send me the Makefile, userdefs.h and typescript command from doing step 1.
-- & thanx for your kind offer: i'll send the files FYI, but the problem has
resolved itself today: 2-6 compiled & works (on the surface, at least),
but there are a couple of further notes for lynx-dev.

-- Rick Mallett was correct: when  Makefile  unzipped, the ln-cont'n  \s
in the  sgi  section ea had a  CR  added: this happened to ALL the targets
appar'ly.  when i removed the  CRs  fr the  sgi  section to make 1 long ln,
2-6 compiled straight thro'.  HOWEVER, this leaves the fact that anyone else
-- some innocent o/worked sysadmin out there -- w an SGI machine
& the same  unzip  will run into the same problem (it's NOT the editor).
anyway, my thanx to Rick for his prompt & accurate diagnosis.

-- given Larry's kind offer, may i take it up in a diffr way, wh mt help
a few others; others on lynx-dev mt have a word or two as well:

-- there's a lot of terminology in  lynx.cfg ,  Makefile  &  userdefs.h
wh is~ immed'ly clear: wd anyone feel up to explicating in 1 or 2 sentences?

--  WAIS  is  wide-area info (i/net?) system : but what is that?
-- i have  SOCKS  on my feet, but what are they in the Lynx context?
-- what is my  CWIS  (if i have one)?
-- what exactly is  localhost ? it is where i mt put the help files,
   acc to  lynx.cfg , but i can~ get Lynx to find them (i've got rd it
   by giving the full URL out-&-back to the CHASS site pp)?
-- are  DIRED  &  anonymous  of any interest to me (i omitted them),
   using 2-6 u my own home dir a/a running a multi-user system?
-- is  JUMP  merely a special kind of Bookmark File (i left it out)?
-- what is a  proxy  server? it's mentioned freq'ly on lynx-dev.
-- what are  MIME types ? ditto (seems to be someth to do w e-mail).
-- there's a ref to a viewer, eg  xv , wh is available on this system:
   does that mean that if i had the nec hardware, i cd download via Lynx
   a graphic of eg one of Jupiter's moons fr Sky & Telescope
   & use  xv  to look at it?
-- there are 2 items in  lynx.cfg  wh really are gobbledegook:
   look at the paras on  LYNX_HOST_NAME  &  LOCALHOST_ALIAS : wozzitmean?

-- Andrew Kuchling has asked what lynx-dev sb planning for 1997,
   & listed half-a-dozen items of pgming.  my response is, as previously,
   that the current need is for availability & organisation,
   not more patches & tweaks.  i hope my awkward questions help.

-- 2-6? straight-off, it actually centres headers!
   & you can EDIT incorrectly entered URLS!  it is  1 Mb , if anyone cares.

-- and to Uwe Koch: the street cars are one of Toronto's delights
   -- and an important part of why it works so well as a big city --
   but the little drawing below is a trolley bus, of which we are currently
   deprived, due to short-sighted management & lack of funds,
   and about which we have had a municipal fight since 1982 ...   
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