Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> >  I afraid we have to expect similar behaviour on VMS port - as I 
> > understand, 
> > the VMS filename always contains ':'. I see several variants (not mutually 
> > exclusive) 
> 
> perhaps simpler: require that the include filename be quoted to get keywords
> after it
  What do you mean by qouting - including the name in qoutes or escaping
colons? 

  IMO this is bad solution - it breaks backward compatibility on DOS since
each file path contain ':' after drive letter there. So we can be smart to
handle this without escaping colons or don't require to escape the 1st colon. 
  I still don't know anything about VMS filenames. Can you describe them
briefly or point which of the variants in my original letter is correct?
 
> > 1) On DOS - if that ':' is preceeded with letter and nothing else (perhaps 
> > spaces), we can treat such first ':' as part of the name, and expect option 
> >  
> > names to start after second ':'. 
> > 2) I don't know anything about VMS filesystem approach, so here is 
> > conditional 
> > solution: 
> >  If each VMS pathname contain _exactly_ one colon, then we can expect 
> > option 
> > names after second colon, otherwise  
> >  disable this functionality for VMS (since this feature is designed for 
> > ISPs 
> > that provide shell account with lynx, and IMO there are few ISPs with VMS 
> > installed, then this decision won't be painful) 
> >  
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad