LYNX-DEV Making lynx more portable and reliable

[Victor Schneider]

What I'm going to suggest is an idea that makes the slrn news reader more
reliable:  Instead of calling `gethostbyname' and taking what it returns,
set up a loop to call gethostbyname several times until it either times out
or returns something.  It seems that not all internet providers and not all
wsock32.dll's are created equal.

At any rate, if you run `./configure' on the latest lynx release, and you
modify WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c and src/LYUtils.c to call a new
functions `really_get_that_host_by_name!' which does this loop and sleep
thing from slrn, lynx works much better in general, and does what it should
do when compiled from the configured Makefile under cygwin32.

It would also help if you remembered that the Win95/WinNT keyboards are slightly
different than UniLinux, and `configure' ought to test for that so that the
keypad keys and the `enter' key work properly.  Especially since a `configure'
and compile version of ncurses just doesn't get keys right for many
applications under cygwin 32 and other flavors of Windows.

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