Re: lynx-dev bug in lynx

[Doug Kaufman]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Marco Costantini wrote:

> on the system that I use (SunOS giove 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc
> SUNW,Ultra-250), the system manager has upgraded Lynx to the version
> 2.8.1rel.2. When I tried to use the old bookmarks file, but Lynx
> said only the cryptic message "Unable to open the bookmarks file":
> Lynx doesn't say that the format of the bookmarks file has been
> changed. You can reproduce this problem tring to use the latest
> version of Linx with a bookmarks file created by a previous version,
> such as 2.6. I think that this is a bug: Lynx should be able to
> recognize the previos formats of the bookmarks file and, after
> asking the user, to upgrade them.

As far as I know the bookmark FORMAT didn't change significantly.
Lynx still recognizes old bookmark files. What changed at some point
is that bookmarks MUST now be specified in your .lynxrc (via the
option page) as relative to $HOME. Absolute paths are not allowed.
This is the probable cause of your problem. Make sure that the
bookmark file is either in your $HOME directory or specified relative
to it (i.e. if it is $HOME/bookmarks/bookmark.html, specify as
"bookmarks/bookmark.html"). Write back to the list if this doesn't fix
your problem.
                                 Doug

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