Re: lynx-dev if lynx.cfg is unavailable (was: disabling charsets)

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Klaus Weide averred (on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 07:14:12PM -0600):
| 
| It doesn't need it in order to run somehow.  It needs it in order to
| know how it is meant to run.  It doesn't know whether 'lynx.cfg not
| available' is an acceptable condition or not, so it acts according
| to 'better safe than sorry'.

This is nonsense.  The manual should say, and lynx should act as if the
manual said:
        Lynx is compiled to use settings, options, and URLs defined
        in certain source code files.  Many of those settings can be
        overridden in an optional lynx.cfg file, which must be in a
        directory defined in those source code files (usually it would
        be /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg).

[If the man pages were written like those of smail, then that last
parenthetical remark wouldn't be necessary, since the man page would
carry the precise location where a lynx.cfg file would exist.]

IOW, there is nothing "unsafe" to be "sorry" about if lynx uses the
settings used at compile-time; there is nothing "unsafe" to be "sorry"
about if there's no lynx.cfg file to override any of those defaults.

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