Re: LYNX-DEV anyone know the solution to the problem with lynx 2-6FM and ftp directory sorting?

[Ismael Cordeiro]

Larry W. Virden wrote:

> I am using lynx 2-6FM CHANGES as of 01-10-97.  I compiled it on a
> SPARC/Solaris 2.4 using Sun's unbundled C compiler and the
> solaris2-ncurses Makefile action.
> 
> When I access YYY lynx http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/ I see the
> following. Notice that the directories are not sorted in order, even
> though, in my lynxrc file, I have:
> 
> # The file_sorting_method specifies which value to sort on when viewing
> # file lists such as FTP directories.  The options are:
> #    BY_FILENAME -- sorts on the name of the file
> #    BY_TYPE     -- sorts on the type of the file
> #    BY_SIZE     -- sorts on the size of the file
> #    BY_DATE     -- sorts on the date of the file
> file_sorting_method=BY_DATE

Lynx' FTP sort criteria applies to FTP servers, not HTTP servers like
www.perl.org (Apache). If you get the source of www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/
you'll see that it's an HTML document.

Ismael
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