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RE: lynx-dev URL scheme question for VMS
From: |
Jerome LAURET |
Subject: |
RE: lynx-dev URL scheme question for VMS |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:31:50 -0400 |
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> To: JLAURET
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> Subj: RE: lynx-dev URL scheme question for VMS
>
>
[...]
>
> Well, the code seems to be still there in other places to handle the
> native syntax (for example in LYConvertToURL).[*] It just wasn't
> being reached any more, because of the is_url test. Whether it's worth
> maintaining is up to interested VMS users (i.e., you...).
^^^^^^^^^^ Well, I'm trying to maintain
VMS support for sure. Lynx is so nicely packaged that now, it requires little
effort to continue the support. Someone has to do it ...
>
> The change I mention was, according to CHANGES file, from
> 1999-01-18 (2.8.2dev.14)
> and I don't remember seeing any messages since then from VMS users about it.
> So either nobody but you was trying to use native file syntax (it's been a
> "hidden feature" which didn't affect anybody else), or VMS users all have
> been using older versions...
Last month, I've reported that the Multinet compilation was broken.
Thomas kindly added the fix I suggested ... and when I did the announcement
of the lynx2-8-2 release, I got people coming to my software re-distribution
site and downloading it. So, what I think is happening is that VMS users uses
old versions ... until someone works on a new one. If it's broken, they keep
quiet (strange, I usually scream ;) ).
>
> But anyway, I think it's safe to say that "Unix SHELL syntax" is the
> preferred form of input. (Full URLs should be even more preferred.)
>
So, my opinion on this is : Let's go like everyboddy else i.e. having
lynx behaving like on any other platform => I personally do not plan to
re-enable the undocumented feature if the way this group is going is to make
Lynx uniform accross platform.
On the other topics :
|Have you checked saved settings? (I don't even know what the equivalent
|to .lynxrc is, under VMS)
Yes I did. I deleted the sys$login:.LYNXRC;* file.
|...only determine what the COLORs are *if* color is on...
Understood : but I thought that the colors were supposed to be ON by
default.
|Slang documentation says (cslang.txt):
[...]
Ha ha ! Setting
$ define COLORTERM 1
would make it but SLtt_Use_Ansi_Colors would not (even if I use case
sensitive logicals). That's really nice : even Jed has color enabled now with
that logical defined ... So much for me for not reading the Slang documentation
I think I will leave an extra note for VMS users about this and define
this in my system-wide freeware startup procedure. Thanks a trillion !!!
Jerome LAURET S.U.N.Y. @ Stony Brook
,,,,, Dept. of Chemistry
( o o ) Stony Brook NY 11794-3400
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