Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-2.7.1 and lynx2-7-1

[Foteos Macrides]

Thanh Ma <address@hidden> wrote:
>prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/lynx-2.7.1.tar.gz extracts into lynx-2.7.1
>latest fotemods.zip extracts into lynx2-7-1
>
>Is this intentional ?

        Lynx v1.0 though v2.7.1 (and v2.7.1+fotemods) avoids directory
and file names with multiple dots for its breakouts, because not all
platforms on which Lynx was intended to build from v1.0 though v2.7.1
support such directory or file names.

                                Fote

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