Re: lynx-dev what is "compile time settings"

[dickey]

> to follow up on what Nelson Henry Eric said: 
>  
> > On the info page there is a link "compile time settings": 
> >    Linkname: Configuration Definitions 
> >         URL: file://localhost/home/kyoin/nelsonhe/L8681-2TMP.html 
> >  
> > I can't really see as how it's going to benefit anyone except 
> > someone who understands programming.  Seems to me it could be 
> > off by default. 
>  
> Anyone who tries to understand the operation of lynx.cfg and 
> .lynxrc can benefit from this information.  It really helps to 
> know what the program is supposed to do if you say nothing. 
> Since that may vary from binary to binary, the distributed help 
> files can't tell you this information, and the generated 
> information sub-page is needed. 

also (I agree that the names don't seem very understandable) the generated
page does have the advantage of requiring little maintainance (when the
topic first came up I thought it'd have to be something as in vim or ncftp,
which is a hand-crafted maze of ifdef's).

however - responding to Henry's concern - it might be something that we
may consider disabling in anonymous mode, since each user gets that little
5kb file.  (if you have a _lot_ of users that adds up).

> Al 
> 


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