--- lynx-2.8.5/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFile.c.orig	2004-03-11 23:00:54.000000000 -0800
+++ lynx-2.8.5/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFile.c	2004-03-11 23:02:59.000000000 -0800
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ PRIVATE void LYListFmtParse ARGS5(
 	char *datestr;
 #ifdef S_IFLNK
 	int len;
+	struct stat st;
 #endif
 #define SEC_PER_YEAR	(60 * 60 * 24 * 365)
 
@@ -278,7 +279,8 @@ PRIVATE void LYListFmtParse ARGS5(
 			END(HTML_A);
 			*buf = '\0';
 #ifdef S_IFLNK
-			if (c != 'A' && S_ISLNK(data->file_info.st_mode) &&
+			if (lstat(file, &st)<0) st=data->file_info;
+			if (c != 'A' && S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) &&
 			    (len = readlink(file, tmp, sizeof(tmp) - 1)) >= 0) {
 				PUTS(" -> ");
 				tmp[len] = '\0';
@@ -1788,7 +1790,7 @@ PRIVATE int print_local_dir ARGS5(
 		/* FIXME */
 	    }
 	    LYTrimPathSep (tmpfilename);
-	    if (lstat(tmpfilename, &(data->file_info)) < 0)
+	    if (stat(tmpfilename, &(data->file_info)) < 0)
 		data->file_info.st_mode = 0;
 
 	    strcpy(data->file_name, dirbuf->d_name);