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Re: lynx-dev Dead link? (patch, this time)
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Re: lynx-dev Dead link? (patch, this time) |
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Wed, 19 May 1999 18:38:31 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, Kim DeVaughn said:
> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 17:05:19 -0700
>
> That by itself won't quite do the trick, if one ./configure's using
> the --enable-gzip-help (install gzip'ed help files) flag.
>
> In addition to further makefile.in changes, you also need to fiddle
> with the lynx_help/help_files.txt file. Maybe something else, too.
>
I looked at this; then looked elsewhere to rest my eyes. What a mess!
> IMO, we shouldn't bother ... the COPYING info is of little or no use
> to people who are just *using* an ISP/Freenet/whatever pre-installed
> lynx, and for those that are installing their own copy, they already
> have access to the doc in the distribution.
>
> Easier, and less "cluttering" to just reference the doc in the .html
> file, and eliminate its being a link (if it really needs to be in
> the .html help file(s) in the first place).
>
Well, here's an alternative that links to documents at sites of their
authors. The gnu.org is reasonable; I needed to scratch unduly
for the ukans.edu.
-- gil
=====================================================================
%%% Created Wed May 19 18:31:56 MDT 1999 by target lynx.patch. %%%
diff -bru orig/lynx2-8-2/lynx_help/about_lynx.html
lynx2-8-2/lynx_help/about_lynx.html
--- orig/lynx2-8-2/lynx_help/about_lynx.html Wed May 5 18:33:59 1999
+++ lynx2-8-2/lynx_help/about_lynx.html Wed May 19 18:28:08 1999
@@ -49,8 +49,10 @@
<A HREF="#lynx-dev_list"><EM>lynx-dev mailing list</EM></A>.
<P>Lynx is copyrighted by the University of Kansas and is distributed
-<A HREF="COPYHEADER">without restrictions on usage or redistribution</A>
-under the <A HREF="COPYING">GNU General Public License</A>.
+<A HREF="ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx/lynx2-8/lynx2-8/COPYHEADER"
+>without restrictions on usage or redistribution</A>
+under the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU
+General Public License</A>.
<P>Lynx was built over an early version of the Common Code Library
developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code is copyrighted by CERN.