Re: lynx-dev address@hidden: some problems]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:56:27PM +0900, Hataguchi Takeshi wrote:
> I'm forwarding this mail, because the original sender said to me that
> he couldn't see it in the FLORA archive after a half day he has sent
> it to lynx-dev.

oh.  There was some discussion earlier this year about moving the archive
to savannah.gnu.org (but I visited flora about a week ago and it seemed
to be updated recently, and just now, visiting savannah, I don't see any
sign of a mailing list archive).
 
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> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 11:48:21 +0900
> From: vortex5 <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: some problems
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> Dear, developpers.
> Thank you for wonderful software.
> 
> I would like to report some problems.
> Excuse me for my English.
> 
> My versions are Windows 95 ported, ver.2.8.5 dev8.
> 
> 
> (1) On "Visited Links Page"
> I can't change sorting method by the popup menu. 
> I've confirmed this since 2.8.4 rel1.
> 
> It will work, by changing a form option string,
> "visited_pages_type" to "visited_links" in src/LYHistory.c.
> 
> 
> (2) lynx.rc (and lynx.cfg?)
> I'm setting "visited_links=FIRST" on my lynx.rc.  But lynx
> can't recognize this on startup, it always sets a default value.
> 
> To compare strings from lynx.rc and internal, LYgetEnum() in
> "src/LYrcFile.c" uses strncasecomp(), I believe.
> 
> This time, string "FIRST" may match twice, "FIRST" and
> "FIRST_REVERSED". Then LYgetEnum() returns FALSE, and the
> default value is turned to be set. 
> 
> Instead of using strncasecomp(), strcasecomp() solves this
> problem. But some side effects might occur, because I don't
> know the purpose of using strncasecomp() here.

probably a bug (I don't recall if it was that way in the code that I
reorganized to make LYgetEnum(), or if I did it that way myself).
 
> LYgetEnum() was merged from "src/LYReadCFG.c" on 2.8.5 dev5.
> 
> 
> (3) FTP path (DOSPATH related? no problem?)
> Visiting a FTP directory, like "ftp://xxx.xxx.com/pub/";,
> lynx sets the title to "C:\pub\". Is this a normal behavior?
> I've confirmed this since 2.8.4 rel1 enabling DIRED_SUPPORT.
> Without DIRED_SUPPORT, not occurs.

again, a bug (will have to test/debug on win32 to see what's involved).

thanks...

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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