Re: lynx-dev Dired for DOS (PATCH)

[dickey]

> Here is a version of the patch for dired support in the DOS port 
> that I have been working on. It still has some problems that I hope 
> can be fixed by someone who knows C. This is modified from the patch 
> submitted by Igor Poretsky on 21 April 1999. I don't know that it is 
> yet ready to be integrated with the main distribution (after release, 
> of course), but I don't think that I can fix the problems. 

thanks (I can see that I'll be very busy after 2.8.2's released)
  
> Notes: 
> Bugs: 
>  
> 1. I'll try to explain this briefly, but this bug very reproducible. 
> If a program is invoked from the dired menu which needs to interact 
> with the user, the system sometimes freezes and has to be rebooted. 
> For example, a call to unzip a zip archive where the files already 
> exist has zip ask if the file should be overwritten. If done initially 
> after lynx is started, no keystrokes are accepted and the system 
> always hangs. If, however, any file has been moved or had its name 
> changed via the dired menu, then the above problem doesn't occur. I 
> have tried to see what changes after the name change that fixes this 
> problem, but I am stumped. Gzip and unzip seem to have this problem, 
> but PKUNZIP doesn't. 

PKUNZIP uses a different memory manager of course (I have noticed that
djgpp does not play well with the other clients under DOS, though
cygwin32's not as good as djgpp in that respect)
  
> Doug Kaufman 


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