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Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH |
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Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:53:34 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> I afraid we have to expect similar behaviour on VMS port - as I understand,
> the VMS filename always contains ':'. I see several variants (not mutually
> exclusive)
> 1) On DOS - if that ':' is preceeded with letter and nothing else (perhaps
> spaces), we can treat such first ':' as part of the name, and expect option
> names to start after second ':'.
> 2) I don't know anything about VMS filesystem approach, so here is conditional
> solution:
> If each VMS pathname contain _exactly_ one colon, then we can expect option
> names after second colon, otherwise
> disable this functionality for VMS (since this feature is designed for ISPs
> that provide shell account with lynx, and IMO there are few ISPs with VMS
> installed, then this decision won't be painful)
>
> What do you think?
3) Choose a different syntax, with a different delimiter!
There are bound to be problems with ':' not matter how cleverly
you try to detect which ':' is part of a filename and which isn't.
The delimiter should be unlikely to normally occur in filenames on
any known system. It can still be a legal (but unusual) filename
character, in that case files with that character just cannot be
used here - not a big hardship. That's better than introducing
an escape mechanism (which would create more confusion).
Klaus
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, dickey, 1999/04/23
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/24
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH,
Klaus Weide <=
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/25
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Klaus Weide, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/04/26
- Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH, Vlad Harchev, 1999/04/26