why not --disable--news (was: lynx-dev --disable-gopher, why not --disable-finger)?

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 12:23:52PM -0500, John Bley wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Webmaster Jim wrote:
> 
> > > Whoever wrote the very simple DISABLE_GOPHER, could you find it in your 
> > > heart to do DISABLE_FINGER?
> > That was me
[...]
> a "no frills" option can be implemented it means that a newer version of 
> lynx has a better chance of fitting.

Another snip to the code "--disable-news." This one is more ambitious,
and chops away at LYMain, LYMainLoop, and other code in the src/
directory. It's barely tested.

Since it's larger than the 2 before, the patch and new configure script
are not attached, but are located here:

http://jim.spath.com/lynx/patch-19-gfn.txt
http://jim.spath.com/lynx/configure.bz2
http://jim.spath.com/lynx/configure.txt

Binary sizes:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 jim  wheel  1040384 Feb 26 05:44 /usr/local/bin/lynx2-8-2-dev15
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jim  wheel  929792 Mar  6 23:18 lynx

"--disable-ftp" is feasible, but more useful to keep (IMHO).

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