Re: lynx-dev caching after \ (was why reload etc?)

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Wed Jul  8 15:55:26 1998
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:39:48 -0500 (CDT)
> To: address@hidden
> 
> >(1) should Lynx cache ALL source files?
> >    -- there seems to be strong feeling by users with limited resources
> >    that this would not be useful enough to justify the load involved;
> 
> >(2) should Lynx cache JUST THOSE source files obtained by  \ ?
> >    -- some of us believe this would indeed be very useful
> >    when trying to track down what's wrong with someone's bad HTML
> >    & would not happen often enough to overload anyone's system.
> 
> Actually, these are the same question, just two (of the three) different
> answers to the question:  "How much source do you cache: None, only when
> asked to, or all?"  I believe a strong case could be made for each of
> these under certain circumstances.
> 
>    The best solution that will make *everybody* happy would be to have a
>    compile-time option (userdefs.h or similar) to either cache or not.
> 

RUNTIME-option!!!!!

The code for DOING the caching can't take up much room, likely,
so make it a RUNTIME-option.