Re: LYNX-DEV One more footnote on getting lynx.exe to work under Windows

[Wayne Buttles]

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> If you scan through the source code, you find that there is indeed a
> way to make all Windows apps happy with lynx.exe file names.  You
> define FNAMES_8_3 , and everything works right.
> 
> I hereby nominate `#define FNAMES_8_3' for inclusion in the configure
> script used by lynx, and request that the configure script _test_ for
> `cygwin' in the system name that it gets when it starts up.

Why the heck would you want to limit yourself to 8.3 under a operating
system that supports LFNs?

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