Re: lynx-dev -stdin doc patch

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:42:52PM -0800, Michael Warner wrote:
> Slight improvement (I hope) to the -stdin option documentation,
> and a few cosmetic changes to -help output, regarding line
> lengths.
> 
> Is there any reason, other than using the same GetStdin()
> function as -get_data and -post_data, for -stdin input to
> terminate at a ^--- line?  It was easy enough, for my purpose, to

I'm not sure - perhaps not.  The final (html) chunk shouldn't have to
terminate on ^---, but is needed to distinguish the other two from it.

> stick a sed command in the pipeline to quote the offending lines,
> once I figured out that was the problem, but I was just curious
> whether there was some other reason for the behavior.
> 
> -- 
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