[Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.6dev.18

[Thomas Dickey]

The current version of lynx is 2.8.5

It's available at
        http://lynx.isc.org/
        ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx/lynx2.8.5/
2.8.6 Development & patches:
        http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html

2006-05-29 (2.8.6dev.18)
* suppress OpenSSL URL from version message if it happens to be built using
  GNU TLS -TD  
* change default for DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE in lynx.cfg to http://lynx.isc.org/
  since the Mosaic MetaIndex file is defunct (suggested by Stef Caunter)
* update makelynx.bat (report by FLWM) -TD
* add presentation for text/css, to allow browsing ".css" files -Stef Caunter
* modify LYPrint.c suggested_filename() to strip bzip2's ".bz2" suffixes as
  well as ".zz" suffixes -TD
* modify configure script macro AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST to allow for DOS device
  letter, and to override $PATHSEP with $PATH_SEPARATOR if the latter is
  set -DK 
* modify ifdef in LYCurses.c to avoid using nonfunctional PDCurses 2.7
  newterm() -DK
* update config.guess (2006-04-26) and config.sub (2006-05-13)
* improvements to configure script macros -TD
  + don't use curses_colr on HPUX 11
  + split-out CF_CURSES_HEADER to simplify comparison with CF_NCURSES_HEADER
  + modify AM_WITH_NLS  to make it look in non-system locations, e.g., to
    work with FreeBSD ports system
* modify HTLoadHTTP() to interpret leading asterisks in common name fields as
  wildcards -Thorsten Glaser
* remove SH_EX hardcoded Latin-1 table for strcasecomp() -TD
* fixes for compiling in Cygwin environment -TD
  + modify not to check d_ino when __CYGWIN__ is defined because it
    does not seem to be supported by Cygwin now.
  + modify to use fill_rehostent to avoid segfault in _fork_func,
    which is used in Win32 environment (includes Cygwin).
* fix some printf formats -Thorsten Glaser
* fix some non-POSIX syntax in scripts/cfg_path.sh -PG
* modify makefile.in to ensure that scripts are prefixed with $(SHELL), in
  case packager has stripped executable permissions from scripts, e.g., by
  using CVS (report by Atsuhito Kohda) -TD
* add a null-pointer check in handle_LYK_HEAD() to cover a case where doing
  a HEAD on a link failed because there was no submit action associated with
  the link (report by Walter Ian Kaye, Stef Caunter) -TD
* improve tbl2html.pl script to cover the ranges and approximations used in
  def7_uni.tbl -TD
* additional def7_uni.tbl conversions (patch by Tim Larson).
* fix ifdef's for repeated-include of winsock.h for Visual Studio 6 -TD

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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