lynx-dev listelves Why lynx doesn't run on Windows 3.1 or early NT (fwd)

[T.E.Dickey]

(I seem to recall implementing a configure option some months ago that
allows one to suppress combinations of the chrtrans tables - could he
be referring to something else?)

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> The character translation code modules in the src directory choke 16- 
> bit C compilers because of the table-size required.  This is bad and 
> unportable programming design, since the character translation code 
> doesn't even work under Windows. 
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