LYNX-DEV two problems with Patch-O-Matic

[Nelson Henry Eric]

Actually Bela has already pointed this out in the context of "WebMail".
I find the same problems using "wget", namely 1) the file does not come
compressed and 2) completely new files are not included in the patch.
While the second problem can be overcome by downloading the missing
files, it sort of defeats the purpose of the patch service.  Because the
size of the patches can soon become rather large (for an absurdly slow
link that is), compression is very desirable.  In case it will help,
I'll append the log from "wget" (the "[text/plain]" seems fishy).  Also
for those not familiar with what might happen if you don't have a file
that is referenced, I append the compile errors you would get if you
applied a patch taking you from ac60 to ac68 without getting the necessary
files or editing out the references to them.

__Henry

log from "wget":

--04:00:03--  
http://144.35.10.96:80/cgi-bin/lynx/patch?old_level=2.7.1ac-0.60&new_level=2.7.1ac-0.%40&compressed=y
           => `patch?old_level=2.7.1ac-0.60&new_level=2.7.1ac-0.@&compressed=y'
Connecting to 144.35.10.96:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, fetching headers... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 done.
Length: unspecified [text/plain]

    0K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
   50K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
  100K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... .....

04:15:57 (158.32b/s) - 
`patch?old_level=2.7.1ac-0.60&new_level=2.7.1ac-0.@&compressed=y' saved [148587]


FINISHED --04:15:57--
Downloaded: 148,587 bytes in 1 files


errors you'll get if you don't have the new files in place:

cd chrtrans && make tables
make: Warning: Both `makefile' and `Makefile' exists
Current working directory /home/user/lynx2-7-1/src/chrtrans
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `viscii_uni.tbl'
Current working directory /home/user/lynx2-7-1/src/chrtrans
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/home/user/.slang/src -I/home/.usr/include
-I.. -I../WWW/Library/Implementation  -O2 -DSUN -DSUN4 -c ./UCdomap.c
./UCdomap.c:82: chrtrans/viscii_uni.h: No such file or directory
./UCdomap.c:83: chrtrans/utf8_uni.h: No such file or directory
./UCdomap.c:84: chrtrans/rfc_suni.h: No such file or directory
./UCdomap.c:85: chrtrans/mnemonic_suni.h: No such file or directory
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `UCdomap.o'
Current working directory /home/user/lynx2-7-1/src
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
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