Re: LYNX-DEV Latest merged code package

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:

> Thanks Klaus!  This makes the Win32 version almost fully functional in
> comparison to the other ports.  I think the only big things missing are
> non-blocking tcp calls, and a lack of slang support.  

A couple of other things I've noticed that the Win32 version needs are an
awareness of DOS's funky backslash separator (file:///c:\test.html will
crash lynx) as well as the ability to deal with just a filepath on the
command line to be able to cope with drag-and-drop and spawning from
editors such as Webber (i.e. lynx c:\test.html should assume you mean a
local file, and not go through the lookup process).  Also, I haven't
figured out any way to define an editor on the options screen that will
actually work (I've tried 'notepad', 'notepad.exe',
'c:/windows/notepad.exe', etc.).

> By the way, Lynx for Win32 got:
> 
> 5 ducks (Netscape and IE got 6) at NONAGS Web Browsers:
> 
> http://magnaworld.com/nonags/www32.html
> 
> And 3 out of 4 stars at freeware32.com:
> 
> http://www.freeware32.com/file/browsers3.htm
> 
> Word travels fast I guess, I only know about these because of the
> increased web traffic and my webserver referrer stats. 

Cool!  More exposure for Lynx which is part of what we wanted the Win/DOS
ports for. :)

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