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Re: lynx-dev lynx: off subject, bug VERY good


From: Michael Warner
Subject: Re: lynx-dev lynx: off subject, bug VERY good
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:54:45 -0700

On Fri, May 15, 1998, David Combs <address@hidden> wrote:

> My response didn't make it;. I try again:

They both came through OK here....

        [...]

> Please explain (to us all): what is this "valid comment" thing
> you are talking about?

 From [...]lynx_help/keystrokes/other_help.html

        '       -Toggles "historical" vs minimal or valid comment parsing.
                 When historical, any close-angle-bracket will be
                 treated as a comment terminator, emulating the parsing
                 bug in old versions of Mosaic and Netscape, rather than
                 validly requiring pairs of two successive dashes to
                 delimit comments within the angle-brackets.

        `       -Toggles minimal or valid comment parsing. When minimal, any
                 two successive dashes followed by a close-angle-bracket
                 will be treated as a comment terminator, emulating the
                 parsing bug in Netscape v2.0.  If historical comment
                 parsing is set, that will override minimal or valid
                 comment parsing.

The page in question had a comment with an extra '--' comment
delimiter, so the page from that point on is included in the comment
if you use 'valid' comment parsing.  Either minimum or historical
parsing should let you read the article.

HTH,

-- 
Michael Warner 
<address@hidden>

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