lynx-dev Re: LYNX-DEV lynx_w32.zip feedback

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:56:40AM -0400, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>       I put cp.exe, mv.exe and sendmail.exe in C:\WINDOWS and have had
> no apparent problem accessing them without explicit setting of the path
> on invoking the W32 Lynx.  However, when I 'd'ownloaded a text file
> (LYMail.c from the dev5 source breakout) and subsequently tried to view
> it with Notepad, it was garbled due to non-recognition of newlines.  I
> went to the MS DOS prompt and opened it with that editor, and it displayed
> OK.  I then Save'd that, and it displayed OK in Notepad too.  This seems
> to mean that Notepad needs CRLF, but the DOS editor doesn't, to recognized
> newlines, and the DOS editor converts LFs to CRLFs on Save's.  Do you have
> any recommendations on how to deal with all this more conveniently when
> trying to view files 'd'ownloaded by Lynx when accessing them via Desktop
> utilities?

Simple: view them with Lynx and 'e'dit them with Vim
(http://www.vim.org). This editor has a Win32 GUI version that rocks.

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