Re: lynx-dev Proposed patch (DOS related)

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> this will be the address from userdefs.h. Neither the individual user
> nor a system administrator needs to keep lynx.cfg at this location,
> however. If lynx.cfg is at another location, the current code will not
> find it. "lynx_cfg_file", however, ALWAYS points to the configuration
> file currently being used, which should have all the comments and
> any links to included files. I won't (and I suspect most users and
> administrators won't) keep a duplicate copy of lynx.cfg just for the
> help system to find. If the worry is that the active file will be
> shortened to only the items that are different from the compilation
> option, it is easier to specify in the INSTALLATION instructions that
> the file should not be shortened because it is also a help file, than
> to ask that a duplicate file be kept at a hardcoded help location.

I just wanted to second this.  (I'm afraid my reply was not very well written.)

__Henry