Re: lynx-dev Win32 docs patch (was: Lynx and downloading files)

[Doug Kaufman]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> 19-Apr-99 09:38 Webmaster Jim wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 01:19:59PM +0100, Don Adaway wrote:
> >> In article <address@hidden>, Doug
> >> Kaufman <address@hidden> writes
> >> >This sounds like a problem with your cp.exe program. Do you have it
> >> Many thanks for solving the problem.  Cp.exe was not in a directory in
> > [ ... ]
> 
> IMHO we should check the existance of cp.exe and mv.exe at DOSPATH platforms
> and force HTAlert error when these executables apparently lost (LYCopyFile).
> What does status codes for
>         code = LYSystem(the_command)
> look like?

The problem is more complex. As in this user's case, he had a cp.exe
program, but it was the wrong one. Making sure that there is a valid
cp program, that follows the expected syntax, seems like a lot of
overhead every time lynx is run.

I am not sure about mv.exe. Although I distribute mv.exe with lynx
on my web and ftp sites, I am not sure that it is ever used in the
DOS port. The last time I grep'ed for this in the code, it was used
primarily in the DIRED functions, which aren't compiled into the DOS
port. Where is this used by the DOS or Win32 ports?
                              Doug
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