Re: LYNX-DEV No Win16 version

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "TED" == T E Dickey <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm getting an EMX/GCC development environment debugged on a Win3.11
>> machine. Once I get that going, I should be able to build a 32-bit lynx
>> which runs under Win32s using the RSXWIN extender. (In fact, the OS/2 EMX
>> Lynx port might work.)

TED> I'm interested in feedback (I never did see patches from the
TED> fellow who was working on this, but I was able to build & run it
TED> locally using ncurses & Ripoll's patches for autoconf).

You never saw patches from me because I only have a satisfactorily
working Lynx 2.7.1; I have a fairly recent (circa ac-102) Lynx on my
machine, but it's bug-ridden and there's no point in me distributing
patches.  I could probably get one working quite quickly if I didn't
care about drive letter support, but I do, and the DOS hacks for that
die horribly on OS/2 (because of HTDOS_wwwName not being re-entrant?)
And of course, defining DOSPATH is out since DOSPATH implies a bunch
of unrelated things like that you want your terminal type to be
hardcoded as "vt100"!

I hope to get a current Lynx and work on it soon since I'm seeing the
2.8-pre stuff now, but I'm at a very busy stage in my life (have
comprehensive exams in two months) and don't have time to work on it.
Hopefully Juanjo's autoconf patches will make it easier to deal with
this time, but I still will have to manually go through and change
80-90% of the #ifdef DOSPATH to #if defined(DOSPATH) || defined(OS2)
since the other 10-20% of DOSPATH entries have nothing to do with
pathnames....sorry.  I seem to have gone into flame mode there.
Hopefully I'll get a weekend where I can catch up.

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