Re: lynx-dev Dired_support under MSDOS

[dickey]

> 
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > > this looks as if it would be useful, if it works, but no-one commented:  
> > > did it get overlooked?  TD?  DK?  
> >  
> > I didn't overlook it; it looks like it needs some work (some of the ifdef's 
> > and the workaround for lstat, for instance).  So I'll hold it until DK or 
> > LP 
> > does check it. 
>  
> I'll try to look at this when I get a chance to build the new version. 
> I haven't built any since dev.21. I can try to see if it works, but as 
> you know, I don't know C, so if there are problems I can just stumble 
> around for a while looking for the solution. I am not sure that there 
> is a great need for dired functionality under DOS, since it is simple 
> to shell out and invoke a program like LIST to do this easily. As long 
> as it doesn't add to bloat of the lynx executable, or increase the 
> chance that someone will accidentally delete a file, it is reasonable 
> to try to make the DOS functionality match the unix version. 

thanks.  I have djgpp, but haven't tried building lynx with it since
I don't think I've got the libraries for network card (though dired isn't
a problem).

>                                  Doug 
> __ 
> Doug Kaufman 
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