Re: lynx-dev nsl-fork default

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what Doug Kaufman said:

> On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Philip Webb wrote:
> 
> > given that we have to rely on a configure switch  --enable-nsl-fork 
> > to stop a look-up with `z', why is the default disable?
> > shouldn't it be enable?
> 
> Not all operating systems allow this. MSDOS, for example, doesn't allow
> forking. No one has yet written alternative code for lynx that allows
> these actions in MSDOS.

I think that this can be handled in the Configure script.

If the default for the --enable-nsl-fork switch is "enable" that
doesn't have to mean it gets compiled into the DOS target if
there is no such fork capability in DOS.  I would hope it means
that if you don't say --disable... and you are targeting a
platform which supports the nsl-fork functionality, that it will
be compiled in.

Is that correct?

Al