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Re: lynx-dev DOS patch for dev.26
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Doug Kaufman |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev DOS patch for dev.26 |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:37:08 -0700 (PDT) |
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
> > Lastly, now that we are distributing lynx as a bzip2 file, it seems
> > that lynx ought to recognize bzip2 files
>
> For sure. Wasn't the problem that we wanted table handling rather than
> the kind of if-else/switch-case that's there for .Z and .gz? I think
> Bela already gave lynx-dev hints on how to do the quick hack.
Actually, I was only referring to default recognition of the mime type
as binary. As it now stands, unless there is a listing in mime.types,
lynx tries to download bzip2 via ftp as text rather than binary.
> Another consideration is that bzip2 in its latest form is a library,
> and the binary has become just a wrapper/interface. I started, but
Slightly off topic. I ported the bzip2 0.1pl2 to DOS, but I am having a
devil of a time getting version 0.9.0 beta4 to work in DOS. I keep
getting bad file handle errors, which I don't get compiling on unix. If
any of the other DJGPP users would like to help, please contact me off
the list.
Doug
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