Re: LYNX-DEV Semantics of DOSPATH

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> Hi.  I've been fooling with the development code trying to incorporate
> my OS/2 patches, and I have a question regarding the DOSPATH define.
> What does it mean?  The README.386-win says that it's for "All
> DOS-like systems", but how much DOSishness is implied by this?  My
too much - you probably should not assume any more than that it's
using device colon backslashes (but it's currently also using the same
thing for the flavor of curses).  OS/2 (and WinNT) have additional
complications wrt case-sense of filenames.

for a better breakdown, try looking at vile (vi-like-emacs) which
has most of the appropriate categories broken down (e.g., pathname,
library support, etc).  Lynx has a couple of extra twists (all in the
network libraries), that you'll run into.

The current version of vile is 7.1
It's available at
        http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/vile.html
        ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile
        id.wing.net/pub/pgf/vile

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Thomas E. Dickey
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