Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx question

[Foteos Macrides]

The Wizard 21-Nov-1996 1053 <address@hidden> wrote:
>I am wondering if it is possible to run Lynx on VMS without having TCP on the 
>VMS machine.  This would be for viewing local HTML pages.

        No.  It's compiled with socket library functions in the code, and
thus must be linked with a TCP/IP library whether you are planning to use
those functions or not.  It in theory could be #ifdef'ed to exclude those
functions if you don't intend to use them, but that would be a major
undertaking involving a large number of the C modules.

        There used to be a DECNET (instead of TCP/IP) build for the
libwww of that sort, but it wasn't maintained, and the LYfoo.c modules
all assume TCP/IP.

                                Fote

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