Re: lynx-dev Lynx bug

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what Dirk Stoecker said:

> Hi,
> 
> at http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/warn/archive.html
> 
> I get following Lynx bug:
> 
> >>HTML: ****** Maximum nesting of 800 tags exceeded!
> >>
> >>A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.7.1
> >>

No longer fatal in 

Lynx Version 2.8.1dev.7

File that you are currently viewing

   Linkname: Virus Warning's - Virus Help Denmark
        URL: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/warn/archive.html

i.e. opened OK after max nesting Alert! warning.

> A check in IRC showed this problem on at least another machine, so I 
> report it now. I do not have Lynx 2.8, so I cannot be 100 percent sure,
> that the bug still exists.

What you didn't mention is what version you _do_ have (next time; good
trouble report).

See also:

URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/lynx/FAQ/Als_picks.html


     * Lynx 2.6 dies with [38] too many links on screen; Lynx 2.7 and up
       [39] won't.

References

  38. http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/lynx-dev/9610/0721.html
  39. http://www.peru.edu/~kincaid/lynx/user26.html#MAX
        -- latter link may be dead