Re: LYNX-DEV "Cannot open.." in Win95

[Wayne Buttles]

The slash is appended to C: unless I am mistaken.  C:\\ and C:/ don't seem
to work.

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > 
> >  
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
> > > > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:  
> > > > > > Setting temp=c:\tmp (and creating same) cured the "can't open"   
> > > >   
> > > > Part of this may have been fixed by Doug's last patch.  The other part 
> > > > is  
> > > > caused by #define TEMP_SPACE "/tmp/" in userdefs.h.  What is a safe 
> > > > thing  
> > > > to put there if people have no temp space defined?  
> > > for DOS: "/" 
> or "\\", if you prefer.  I meant to indicate locations that were guaranteed
> to exist (but overlooked the NFS-mounted directories which may not be
> writable as well).
>   
> > That didn't work quite right.  I finally came up with C: but you also need 
> > to then putenv() that as well to make lynx happy.  It will be in the patch 
> > I am working on.   
> then "C:\\" or "C:/"  (if you don't, then you will get files written to
> arbitrary locations, making them harder to find).
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
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> http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
>