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Re: lynx-dev horizontal scrolling stuff
From: |
Bela Lubkin |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev horizontal scrolling stuff |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:18:05 -0700 |
David Woolley wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, David Combs wrote:
> > >re horizontal scrolling: setting the width.
> > >
> > >FOR SURE it should be run-time, and easily switchable.
> >
> > I realize we're talking about a nonexistant feature (some year after I
> > become a billionaire I should get the Lynx source and look at it)..
>
> David is a power user of Lynx without the ability to recompile. That means
> he produces an automatic request for run time configuration when any feature
> is proposed without run time configuration being explicitly specified.
and I work for a commericla Unix company which ships Lynx binaries to
its users. I also am strongly in favor of everything possible being
runtime configurable.
If it's runtime configurable, then a SCO user, or a Debian Linux user,
or a DOS user who downloads one of the lynx-dev-built DOS distributions,
can change those features. Otherwise you have to lead them through
compiling from source (potentially including: obtaining a compiler,
making it work, obtaining libraries, configuring other options they
haven't got a clue about, etc.) In many cases it's much better for
someone to start from an existing, working binary, and just change an
option.
>Bela<