Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.5dev.6: 123g bug

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:45:20AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> 020102 Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> re the image bug, i had 1 failure earlier today with 2-8-4dev.19 ,
> >> but on restarting Lynx was able to get the image at a 2nd try.
> >> it has to be something which varies with Lynx invocations,
> >> eg handling a slow or problematic connection (tho' i use broadband)
> >> or handling the randomly generated temporary directory/file names.
> > I get intermittent problems with remote retrieval from different browsers
> > (unless it's repeatable, it's hard to pinpoint lynx as the culprit).
> 
> no, it happens with local files too, as i pointed out.
> anyway, Lynx shouldn't crash: that's always a bug.
> 
> > for the moment, I'm assuming the 'g' problem was introduced
> > by the multiline highlighting changes 
> > which I'd like to get stable before doing much else that's complicated.
> 
> ok: i'll assume you're after it & will report progress to lynx-dev.

yes, I'm looking into it.  It doesn't break quite as easily on Linux (where
otherwise I have better debugging tools).  I can see some trash on the screen
under Slackware but the program doesn't stop (but at least there's
something...).  Under Debian (stable) there's no sign of any problem.  (I
did most of the debugging for the last patch on Debian).

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