Re: lynx-dev Re: STARTFILE patch

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> >  - for 3), the underlying network problem has to be fixed.  This seems
> >    to be a problem mostly for users of 386 binaries.  Maybe creators of
> >    those packages can make further improvements (or maybe they are already
> >    doing everything that makes sense).
> 
> Maybe I missed it, but I haven't noticed this at all.

For example the exchange including your message
    <http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0499/msg00026.html>.

But I didn't mean to imply that there's an overwhelming number of
those; just that of users that need help with basic network setup
problems, most seem to be 386 binary users.

> The DOS version is inherently difficult to configure,

no doubt, and I didn't mean to criticize your (or someone else's)
packages.

> but most of this has been
> partially automated by Alfredo Cole's program to setup DOSPPP and the
> batch file I include with the binary. I haven't looked at them lately,
> but I believe that there are at least two other efforts to make things
> easy for users, John Lewis's Bobcat386 package (available from the
> fdisk site) and the lynx_kit distribution (from rene.simplenet.com).

But as long as there are older (less well packaged, I assume) packages
around, with pointers to them, there will be people downloading them
and then maybe having unnecessary difficulties.  (It isn't clear to me,
just from following links starting with http://lynx.browser.org/,
which would be the currently most up-to-date and complete package;
but I'm just commenting as a bystander, having never tried any of
the Lynx386 packages.)

   Klaus