LYNX-DEV News from the battlefront

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I am writing this from the pre-5 development code lynx compiled under
cygwinb19/mingw32.  That means I used `sh configure' to set up the
makefiles and the mingw32 (pure Windows32) compiler specs to compile
lynx.

Along the way, I defined things like FNAMES_8_3, DOSPATH, _WINDOWS,
and made sure that dired was disabled.   Unfortunately, whoever was
maintaining src/LYUtils.c had made the code use a concatenation of
getpid() and a counter to generate a temporary file name for viewers
and editors.  That doesn't work well in Windows 95, where the pid
is a negative number, and some apps simply don't like dealing with it.

The best way to do this thing is to 
#ifdef FNAMES_8_3
    sprintf(namebuffer, "%s%u%u.txt",
     lynx_temp_space, (unsigned)getpid() % 100000,
     (counter-1) % 1000);
..
#else
..
#endif

This is being written from notepad using c:\windows\temp\898650.txt.