Re: LYNX-DEV editing of INSTALLATION: 386DOS

[Bill Schiavo]

Hello everyone.  Ok, lets avoid any confusion.  Reading files with LFs
instead of CR LF pairs can be a problem so I suggest the following
scentence get inserted somewhere in installation:

When editing any of the lynx source files be sure to use an editor that
can handle end of lines terminated with a single LF character.  

I wouldn't change the part of installation that discusses unpacking the
source code as I believe that you have it right.

Perhaps we should even recommend several editors that are able to work
with unix-style end of lines.

Bill

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> Henry,
> 
> while writing about unpacking the source we forgot one thing:
> unpacked texts have LF instead of dos CRLF
> and there may be a problem in reading/editing such files
> with usual DOS editors, if such editors are not a UNIX port.
> This is especially important then you need to edit userdefs.h and lynx.cfg
> So, we need something like this:
> 
> Unpack the sources code using DOS program unzip386 (or unzip) with -a switch
> to convert unix LF to dos CRLF to make texts more readable under DOS.
> The program usually distributed with DJGPP and other software,
> or you can get it directly from "http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/MSDOS/";
> 
> and later on, without "No switch is required".
> 
> 
> Leonid.
>