Re: LYNX-DEV a couple of brief questions

[Doug Kaufman]

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Sabato De Rosa wrote:

>  dk>Long unix filenames shouldn't interfere with patch working in the
>  dk>DOS environment.  What are you trying to patch?  What command line
>  dk>did you use?
> 
> I.m trying to patch lynx obviuosly :-); I download patch files from
> "http://www.slcc.edu/cgi-bin/lynx/patch";; the command line that I type
> remaining in "lynx2-7-! main directory is:
> patch -ui filename (the file where reside the patches); patch program asks
> me the file(s) to patch because it seems that it doesn't find files to
> patch.

The usual way to run patch is 
"patch < patchfile" or "patch -p1 <patchfile". 
Try this and see if it works.

> I'd like, if possible, to take advantage of this opportunity to ask you to
> extract from file "lymain.c" the options list that appear when we type
> "lynx -help" in a external file that could be named "listhelp.h". This because

I don't understand what it is that you wish me to do.  Do you just need
a screen capture of "lynx -help", or do you need something special from
lymain.c?
                                Doug
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