Re: 2.8.3dev.8 patch 3 (was: lynx-dev RFC959 non-compliance)

[Gregory A Lundberg]

On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 02:37:34PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:

> I dare say that's most lynx users' experience...  It seems you are having
> some display problems - wrong curses library, wrong terminfo or something
> liek that.  (If you just mean you you don't like the way lynx displays
> some web pages, then that's not relevant for testing how well the FTP
> protocol client works.)

The darned thing scrolls the screen on every link, rendering the page
unreadable.  Does not do it with the Redhat RPM, only when I try to install
the offical tarball from lynx-dev.  Makes browsing an FTP index very hard
.. have to count lines and hope I get it right.  We won't even talk about
what Microsoft's site looks like; I take it as a given they do'nt know what
they're doing, so I don't care if  it's unreadable.

> Yes, I visited ftp.wu-ftpd.org and it worked.  There was no problem with
> retrieving files (as opposed to directories) anyway, or am I wrong?

We noted the problem in the index, noone mentioned problems with downloads.
but I'd not have been surprised if there'd been problem there as well.
It's good to know it'll work for both.

> I'd like to know whether you notice any other differences, positive or
> negative, in the protocol traffic, apart from the fixed hang.

OK.  I'll take a look at the traffic again when I get an even
marginally-usable lynx installed.

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Gregory A Lundberg              WU-FTPD Development Group
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