Re: lynx-dev another port to add to INSTALLATION

[Christian Jensen]

Hello--

Many thanks for your note.

You wrote:
> >981212 Christian Jensen wrote to Henry Nelson:
> >the INSTALLATION file lists a number of operating systems
> >for which lynx has been tested.
> >I can confirm for you that lynx ( 2.7.2 & 2.8rel2 ) will compile
> >cleanly, out of the box, with no source modifications,
> >under NEXTSTEP 3.3, with gcc 2.7.2.3 and curses.
>
> great! thanx for telling us all!
> however, can you try the latest 2-8-1 from
> www.slcc.edu/lynx/release/ or the latest development version from
> sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current ?

Certainly. 2.8.1rel.2 also compiles out of the box. Attempts to  
download the dev source resulted in ftp timeouts for some reason. I  
will try again later and report the results, though I am confident  
everything will go well.

> for those of us who don't know,
> is NEXTSTEP a quite different OS or a version eg of UNIX:
> ie should it be added to the lists in INSTALLATION & at
> lynx.browser.org/ ?

I think it should definitely be added to the lists. NEXTSTEP is a  
UNIX flavor: It is/was a product of the now-defunct NeXT Computer  
Inc. NEXTSTEP runs a BSD 4.3-based UNIX atop the Mach kernel  
developed at Carnegie-Mellon (Avadis Tevanian, one of Mach's  
architects, was VP of System Software at NeXT), and a  
DisplayPostscript-based GUI runs above it all. NEXTSTEP was replaced  
by the OpenStep operating system in 1996 and, following the  
aquisition of NeXT by Apple in late '96, will soon be replaced (much  
to the regret of many) by Apple's MacOSX.

Best wishes,

--Chris

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