Re: LYNX-DEV lynx-386 filename problem

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> I am not at my DOS machine now to test this, but it seem that the
> problem may be the mixed forward and backslashes in %s.  Have you tried
> setting the temp space variable to be only in DOS backslash notation
> (e.g. set LYNX_TEMP_SPACE=c:\tmp\)? You might have to escape the
> backslashes with "c:\\tmp\\", but I would try without escaping first.
> Please let us know what happens. If this is a regular problem, it might
> be best for the DOS port to be compiled with TEMP_SPACE in userdefs.h
> set to a DOS notation default.

I was able to test this last night. This fix doesn't work.  The forward
slash is hardcoded in LYMain.c.  I'll try to make a patch for this and
recompile.  If I can make a patch that works, I will post it to the
list.

                                    Doug
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