Re: [Lynx-dev] "can't access startfile"

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 09:30a +0100 10/28/2006, David Woolley didst inscribe upon an 
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>  > just because it can't find a page. This causes loss of session data
> >  and wastes people's time and patience.
>
> As the session is empty, I don't see how there can be any session data
> to lose!

There's lots. Cookies, Lynx options that don't get saved to disk, 
other web pages in cache, URL history -- all that data. Lynx quits, 
it's all gone.


At 06:15a -0400 10/28/2006, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an 
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> w3m does this also

Bug compatible, I guess?


At 06:40p +0000 10/28/2006, Thorsten Glaser didst inscribe upon an 
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> STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/

You're telling me I should never start lynx via a URL? No 
double-clicking of URLs in emails, text documents, etc? You want me 
to give up that functionality to work around a bug in the program 
which causes loss of data?