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.