Re: lynx-dev Minor install problem on VMS

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Alder wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've built and installed version 2.8.3 of Lynx from the SYSTEM account
> on VMS 7.2 hobbyist system running TCPIP Services 5.0 and am pretty
> happy with it.  There are a few niggling problems, however, which I hope
> someone here can help with.  Probably just something missing in
> USERDEFS.H or the config file.
>
> First, when I try to use the Options item Lynx responds with these two
> messages:
>
> Alert!: Unable to open tempfile
> Alert!: LYNXOPTIONS:/
>
> Is this something related to the "#define TEMP_SPACE" line at the very
> start of USERDEFS.H?  The setting I used was:

It probably is. I don't recall at the moment (and don't have a VMS system
handy to test at the moment), but "2.8.3" sounds like the interim version
that I submitted for the freeware cdrom.  2.8.4 "should" work at least as
well. But I didn't experiment with changing the definition of TEMP_SPACE.
Reading the related code, it's not obvious whether it will handle various
types of definitions (the ']' is a little different from a ':').  Perhaps
making it a rooted logical would work better for you.  Note that you can
experiment with this by defining the LYNX_TEMP_SPACE logical.

>     #define TEMP_SPACE "SYS$LOGIN:[LYNXTMP]"
>
> and created such a directory in each user's home directory.
>
> Also, I specified the location of LYNX.CFG in the USERDEFS.H file as
> follows:
>
> #define LYNX_CFG_FILE "Lynx_Dir:lynx.cfg"
>
>     - where the LYNX_DIR system logical is created in
> SYS$STARTUP:SYLOGICALS.COM with
>     - $ DEFINE/SYSTEM/NOLOG LYNX_DIR DISK$PROGRAMS:[LYNX.]
>
> Can anyone suggest corrections to these entries or some other changes I
> should make to get the Options menu to appear?


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