Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.3

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> Hurrah!  By dev.4, this compiles out-of-the-box and runs on OS/390.  (Well,
> nearly OOTB.  I have to knock off a couple rough edges, mentioned here
> previously.)
> 
> "preliminary"?  Well, I haven't even attempted testing gopher, wais, unicode,
> lots of fringe stuff.

It may be difficult to find servers to test them, especiall wais which
seems quite dead (as an URL access scheme anyway).

> Welcome back Klaus.  I understand you're a character set manipulation expert.

That's exaggerating.

> I guess I've added a new dimension of complexity with the possibility of
> a host that doesn't run in ASCII.

And it actually works?  Amazing...

I haven't looked at dev.4 at all to see what you had to do, but I'm
curious.  The only EBCDIC system I have some experience with is VM/CMS,
and that was quite a while ago.

   Klaus