lynx-dev Re: Bug: unable to uncompress temporary file

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:01:25PM -0700, roy langford wrote:
> hi. i love lynx and use it through the san francisco public library.  In the 
> last few months lynx has been unable to access some websites/
> the library uses  Lynx/2.8.1pre.11 libwww-FM/2.14.  i think it's on a Windows 
> NT platform

I have no problem with 2.8.5dev.8 (current).

The current version of lynx is 2.8.4

It's available at
        http://lynx.isc.org/
        ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx-2.8.4
2.8.5 Development & patches:
        http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html

> the error message is "Alert! Lynx unable to uncompress temporary file!"
> the error occurs when trying to access http://www.crucial.com as well as most 
> abcnews sites (www.abcnews.com).  After the error occurs lynx leaves  me at 
> the web page that i was viewing before the go to url command..  It does not 
> crash. it just fails to open the page.
> I tried to contact abc and crucial but they are unresponsive, especially abc.
> the library is even worse, non-receptive, if not outright hostile.  the 
> library website is http://libweb.sfpl.org/  aka  http://67.115.155.4/
> if there's any additional info i can provide, i'd be happy to.
> thanks for your consideration.  i hope you find this bug report worthwhile.
> thanks for your consideration.  any response is appreciated.
> thanks. bye, roy
> 
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