Re: lynx-dev -anonymous broken in 2.8.4?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:33:16PM +0100, RobertM wrote:
> However wouldit be possible rather than adding all of these as
> anonymous options to have a compile type option of something like:
> ANONYMOUS_RESTRICTIONS=
> Which could then be followed by a list of valid restriction options,
> so that all options specified there are automatically restricted as if
> specified on the command line.

I suppose so.  That's equivalent to editing userdefs.h (replaces yet another
manual operation with a script ;-)

> e.g. specifying at compile time:
> ANONYMOUS_RESTRICTIONS="file_url,download,lynxcfg_info"

better LYNX_RESTRICTIONS

> would cause running "lynx -anonymous" to have the same effect as
> running:
> lynx -restrictions=file_url,download,lynxcfg_info -anonymous
> 
> This would seem to me to allow far more flexibility with out adding
> huge numbers of options, the default would be to leave blank.
> 
> -- 
> Robm
> 873
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>          but what the stupid can do for me" - Graeme Garden
> 
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