Re: lynx-dev PATCH [dev21]: source caching, take 2

[Scott Bigham]

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> 1) when SOURCE_CACHE:MEMORY and we are running on very slow machine
>    (i386 in my case) and the document rather long
>    the fetching of "\" source may be really slow,
>    but no "partial mode" happens: no read-progress counter
>    nor redisplay the page while in progress.

Hmm, I hadn't expected that to be a problem.  That's pretty easy to fix;
I'll have something tonight.

> 2) when SOURCE_CACHE:FILE and I run into the document with DOS/WINDOWS
>    end-of-line (cr/lf) style, the cached source has the same line endings
>    (at least with DJGPP when html files opened in a text mode)
>    and when I press "\" I saw the source with additional blank lines
>    between the actual source lines (in a nornal case lynx handle this
>    on an early stage).

Yeah, I'd wondered if I needed to open the temp file in binary mode.
Will that cause problems with documents with high-bit Latin-1 characters
(real, not entified)?

                                                -sbigham