Re: lynx-dev Lynx Bug Report

[T.E.Dickey]

> 991002 Naeem Rana or Sarmad wrote:  
> > I was using Lynx 2.8.1rel1.1 on a shell account 
> > (the machine seems to be running FreeBSD i386) 
> > I was on  http://members.aol.com/nodinero/pleasehelp.html 
> > and clicked on a link to  http://members.aol.com/nodinero/freestuff.html  
> > After I pressed 'Return', Lynx quit and gave me this message 
> > that it had a fatal error & to contact someone for a bug report. 

the most likely bug is the one in verbose-images (which is presumed to
be fixed in the 2.8.2dev.* and 2.8.3dev.* versions - though both 2.8.1rel
and 2.8.2rel have problems ;-)
   
> no problem using 2-8-2dev.19, tho' he's run out of free stuff, 
> which may have changed the page delivered. 
> Lynx warns of bad HTML, which the document contains, 
> but doesn't crash & indeed using Tagsoup (toggle  ^v ) it's readable. 
>  
> you should get the latest 2-8-2 from  www.slcc.edu/lynx/release/ : 
> if you have problems compiling it, someone here may be able to help; 
> 2-8-3 will be released in a few weeks, hopefully. 
>  
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