Re: about lynx-dev-contrib

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:32:16 -0400 (EDT), 
address@hidden  <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I have started talking to Bob Izenberg about how to work the new 
>> lynx-dev-contrib capability into the Lynx help pages. 
>>  
>> That is to say, this is something we should update and there is 
>> no draft cited or attached. 
>>  
>> Tom, are you at some point going to circulate a "last call for 
>> documentation updates"?  How will I know when it is _almost_ 
>> too late? 
>That will be when I've seen that the bug reports (from builds, and from
>people who forgot to mention problems) tapers off.  Right now, I know
>of:
>        + problem building on HPUX (I made a tentative fix, but haven't
>          heard if that fixes it)
>
>        + problems building on VMS with VAX C (likewise)
>
>        + DK reported a bug that relates to the history stack (I assume
>          that's related to my fixes a month or so ago).
>  
>Once those are resolved, I guess I'll start tooting the whistle...
>

I would really like to see a new build of the Win/32 version made 
available, especially for testing with screen readers.  I don't know 
whether partial display would work usefully if BIOS output were turned 
on, and I hope we don't have an endless succession of cookie messages 
flowing through the status line and triggering speech.  I downloaded 
Doug's LYNX/386 build yesterday here at work, and it looks good so far 
as I have tested it.  I hope there's a clear explanation somewhere 
about how to use ctrl-K to save your cookies; I found that it worked 
as advertised on news.com.  

I just don't know if Wayne is going to have time to compile Lynx/32 
soon, so we're still at version 16 on that platform.  Any suggestions?

-- Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the  Blind and Physically Handicapped
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