Re: lynx-dev Re: lynxcgi vs lynxexec

[dickey]

> I was just wondering if you were able to have a go at this? 

sorry - some other bugs came up and I didn't (it's still on my list; I've
been getting to lynx late in the week because other things take up time).
  
> I am enquiring about this as I have a number of forms that call command
> line software via a small cgi program that creates the command lines. 
> With lynxexec, if a parameter is wrong or missing then the program at the
> command line has to deal with it (which is what I want) but with lynxcgi
> I have to deal with all eventualities in the cgi program, which is going
> to be a pain to catch all of these. 
>  
> Would it have been possible that my predecessor hacked Lynx 2-4-2 to get 
> lynxexec to work 
> or was the use of it with ACTION altered later? 
>  
>  
>  
> Cheers 
> Aengus 
>  
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