Re: lynx-dev new capability?

[Mark Papsun]

> > Mark wrote: 
> > I've been using Lynx since mid-1996. If I recall correctly, the earlier  
> > versions of Lynx weren't capable of interpreting the below address. Lynx  
> > seemed not to like question marks, equal signs, .dll, etc. in the address.  
> >  
> >  
> >    http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ChangeEmailConfirm  
> >  
> > Today when I used the above address, it worked fine. When did this become  
> > possible?  (or am I just remembering incorrectly?)  
> >  
> > > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote: 
> > > you may not have quoted the address, so your shell tried to expand the 
> > > question marks. 
> >  
> >  
> > Why would you say something like that?  I keyed in the address exactly as 
> > worded above.  
> 
> Unix shells expand '?' as a wildcard matching any single character.


That may be true. But why didn't you answer my original question?

I don't need mumbo jumbo. I need a simple answer to a simple question.