Re: about lynx-dev-contrib

[Wayne Buttles]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> > Has anyone used Microsoft's Visual C?  (The school has promised to 
> > supply it for Windows98, although they haven't come through yet.) 
> I have a copy of Visual C++ 5.0 - did a test build a couple of weeks
> ago and judged that I should wait for 2.8.2 to use that (it'll take some
> work to make Lynx function reliably - it's not simply a matter of
> compiling it...)
> 
> (or if someone's done the work, I'll be just as happy).
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
> address@hidden
> http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
> 

BC compiles after a bit of tweaking on pre.5 but the resulting lynx
refuses to try to look up names.  [direct IPs work] I haven't attempted a
compile in many sub-versions so I don't know when this was introduced.
The last working version I have is 2.8.1dev.16. 

I haven't gotten DJGPP to compile yet.