Re: lynx-dev %s %t

[Philip Webb]

980828 Philip Webb wrote: 
(previously)
> one would expect Lynx to look for different place-holders --
>  %s = the temporary filename used by Lynx 
>  %t = a filename of the user's choice  -- ,
(then)  
> at run-time, Lynx must insert into the format string  2  string variables,
> eg (whatever)  tmpname  inputname , the latter having a default value.
> currently, Lynx inserts them in that order, but it could insert them
> in the opposite order if some Boolean global (eg)  ST_ORDER  were defined
> depending on the order of  %s %t  in the corresponding line in  lynx.cfg .
> if would be helpful if someone could point me
> to the relevant bit of Lynx source, but otherwise i'll explore for myself.
 
the starting-points seem to be  LYPrint.c 1034  &  ReadCFG.c 211 ,
but i'm not sure if those are the only places involved.

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