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Re: LYNX-DEV 4DOS
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Wayne Buttles |
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Re: LYNX-DEV 4DOS |
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Wed, 7 May 1997 21:55:34 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> Wayne Buttles <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 7 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> >
> >> > Does anyone use real DOS
> >> > unless they simply haven't yet been enlightened about 4dos?
> >
> >Maybe this is what you are looking for... I DON'T use 4dos all the time.
> >I find that I don't like a couple of the things that it does and I am not
> >interested in finding out if/how the behavior can be changed. I DO use it
> >whenever I need stderr piped to a file which is seldom.
>
> But if the things you don't like about it don't affect your
> ports,
No, just personal preference.
> could you field the other followup question by explaining
> how/where to get it, and swap it in when you want to pipe stderr to
> a file, then swap it back out to resume using real DOS?
I could write some sort of walkthrough assuming a basic level of
understanding <gulp>
> Is that something which could be made simple for Lynx users without
> lots of computer expertise (or should essentially every Lynx file be
> modified so that output to a file is a built in option, without need for
> piping)?
I think there are a couple of other ways to do it besides 4dos. Let me
see if I can find any of them.
I am not totally opposed to having the code changed, I just want to make
sure there is a good reason. What about the Mac ports?
Wayne
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