Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386 filename problem

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Gary Turner wrote:

> I have found a problem in the 386+ version of lynx, which I just
> downloaded from fdisk.com (exe dated last month? ). I am running it 
> under dos 6.22 on a '486.
> 
> The problem relates to (certainly) printing and (possibly) 
> downloading and saving html files. Lynx tries to create a temporary 
> file, but it is not a valid dos filename, and bombs. I set up a batch 
> file with a 'echo %1' line in it as a print method to test it, and it 
> is trying to print a file c:\tmp/L128981TMP.txt (c:\tmp is my tmp 
> environment variable )
> 
> As you can see, there is a mix of forward and backward slashes, and 
> the temp file name is greater than 8 letters.

Although it might seem to be a problem, I haven't had any trouble with
temporary files on my system - DJGPP handles the mix of separators.  You
didn't state exactly what you tried to do that didn't work.  If you can
give examples of what you did and what resulted (i.e. truncated file,
zero length file, no file, etc.), we may be able to help.  What did you
get when you tried to print, download, or save files?  With the above
example, I would get a temp file "c:\temp\L128981T.txt".  If you want to
see the temp file directly, shell from lynx to DOS with the "!" command
and look in your tmp directory.

I wonder if the problem might be an invalid print command. What print
command are you trying to use in lynx.cfg?
                               Doug
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