Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3 with nmh problems

[Michael Abraham Shulman]

"Klaus" == Klaus Weide <address@hidden> writes:

Klaus> - But, actually, it's more likely that "Lynx: Can't open
Klaus>   temporary file!" doesn't refer to '/tmp/mm.6RGWa9' but to
Klaus>   some other temp file lynx is trying to generate.  Again,
Klaus>   comparing Lynx.trace files should give more clues about the
Klaus>   problem.

I think this is it.  /etc/nmh/mhn.defaults tells me that nmh is using
metamail, and /etc/mailcap is invoking Lynx like this:

text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML 
Text; nametemplate=%s.html

Which seems like it ought to work, except maybe for the `nametemplate'
as I'm not sure what that does.  So I edited /etc/mailcap and added
`-trace' to the lynx options above.  Now when I reproduce the error, I
get a Lynx.trace file whose relevant lines appear to be these:

LYOpenTemp(,.html,w)
-> '/tmp//cjAgik/L12212-9513TMP.html'
... LYOpenTemp(/tmp//cjAgik/L12212-9513TMP.html) failed: Permission denied
Lynx: Can't open temporary file!
LYCleanupTemp removing /tmp//cjAgik

This sure looks like it's a different temporary file.  When I run
`lynx -trace a-normal-file.html', Lynx.trace instead contains
corresponding (I think) lines like these:

LYOpenTemp(,.html,w)
-> '/tmp//vgFD4E/L12368-8125TMP.html'
... LYOpenTemp(/tmp//vgFD4E/L12368-8125TMP.html)
LYCloseTemp(/tmp//vgFD4E/L12368-8125TMP.html)
...LYCloseTemp(/tmp//vgFD4E/L12368-8125TMP.html), closed

I must say I'm clueless about what's causing it to fail in the first
case but succeed in the second.  Any ideas?

Thanks for the suggestions.

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