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Re: LYNX-DEV bug?
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Wayne Buttles |
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Re: LYNX-DEV bug? |
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Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:54:06 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dennis Moore wrote:
> LYMainLoop.c, lines 376-7:
> printf("\nlynx: Can't access startfile %s\n",
> startfile);
>
> shouldn't this go to stderr? i glanced through the source to see what
> kinds of things _did_ go to stderr, and noticed that most, if not all of
> them, are prefaced by an if (TRACE). the main reason i'm asking this is
> because someone was trying to write a perl script which did a
> lynx -dump | ispell, and didn't want the pipe to occur if lynx dumped
> something to stderr. "can't access startfile" seemed like an error to
> both of us.
If I am not mistaken, this is a FATAL error. That is why it goes to
stdout. Lynx will not run if the startfile is not there so it complains
instead.
Wayne
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- LYNX-DEV bug?, Dennis Moore, 1997/04/08
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