Re: lynx-dev Re: LYNX: cursor showing strangely on screen in newest version

[dickey]

> Hmmm ... firstly, something seems to be rather busted with your mail s/w, 
> Tom.  Your Date: header is suddenly coming across the wire (in two consec- 
> utive messages) as: 
>  
>   Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 22:52:14 -72500 (EST) 
>                                   ^^^^^^--------[should be -0500, of course] 
>  
> which mutt (actually, strftime()) happily interprets as Jan 03, 1999 with 
> %y/%Y as the year format tokens, or as Jan 03, 1998 using %g/%G. 
>  
> Or is this an attempt to get a year up on the Y2K bugs ... :-) ...? 
>  

I'm mailing from elm (the sysadmins on my ISP don't know much about configuring
programs for users; there "is" a copy of mutt, but whoever "configured" it
set it up for his home directory).  I've already a lot of stuff in my shell
account, and don't want to load up things that "work".
  
> OTOH, the cleanup patch (made against -dev.8) had very little discussion text 
> in it, and was posted within minutes of another, unrelated patch I posted, 
> which *did* get picked up.  I just assumed that you got busy with other stuff 
> (like Christmas shopping, or some such). 

or else mail problems (iirc, we had some problems Sunday before last).
  
> Anyway ... no big deal for me ... especially since the reposts allowed me to 
> cleanup a couple typos/nits each time ... :-) ...! 
>  
>  
> Just in case you should want to look at those old postings, the headers from 
> the archives are attached. 

well, I got the 3rd (I'll look at the others, just to make sure I'm not
ignoring things).
  

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Thomas E. Dickey
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