Re: lynx-dev make install-help bug

[dickey]

> When you `make install-help`, it runs: 
I may simply take that out - it was stubs for SKY's patches to parameterize
the links (it wasn't portable enough for this release, so I turned part of
it off).
  
>         echo Appending interim-fix for existing html files 
>         sed     -e '/^#/d' -e '/[:@]/d' -e '/^$/d' \ 
>                 -e 's%\(.*\)=\(.*\.html\)$%s=\2=\2=%g' \ 
>                 ./lynx_help/help_files.txt >> \ 
>                 /local/lib/lynx/lynx_help/help_files.sed 
>  
> which results in a bunch of expressions like: 
>  
>   s=lynx-dev.html=lynx-dev.html= 
>  
> When applied to about-lynx.html, this produces the following changes: 
>  
>   11c11 
>   < <A HREF="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/";>Lynx-Dev Archives</A> ] 
>   > <A HREF="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev.html/";>Lynx-Dev Archives</A> ] 
                                            ^ (ok - my eyes are getting tired)
  
> Bad.  Same in lynx_dev.html.  The left-hand side of the sed expression 
> needs to have its "."'s quoted (converted to "\."'s). 
>  
> Actually, I don't understand what this is trying to accomplish at all. 
> But it's certainly corrupting some of the links in my help files. 
>  
> >Bela< 


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