Re: lynx-dev HTReadProgress() and statusline in trace mode

[dickey]

iirc:
originally the code was written assuming that tfp was an alias for stderr,
and that someone might use shell redirection to separate the trace messages
from the display (otherwise they'd just overwrite the display in the "right"
place).
 
> Funny thing, read progress message is not present in trace mode. 
> Was it intentionally or just a loss? 
> HTReadProgress() say: 
>  
>             if (TRACE) 
>                 fprintf(tfp, "%s\n", line); 
>             else 
>                 statusline(line); 
>  
>  
> why not 
>     statusline(line); 
>     CTRACE(tfp, "%s\n", line); 
> ? 
>  


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