On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bernie wrote:
> I'm sorry but Petri you have missunderstood how DGI and Arachne works. To
> get LFN we need to recompile wwwman under a diffrent compiler (or with
> other libraries). The easiest way to do this is IMHO to use DJGPP. But you
> can not fix this by using some DGI since DGIs doesn't work that way at all.
> Is there any interest in an attempt from my side to explain them to any of
> you?
I'm sorry, but you have misunderstood what I meant =). IIRC, you can send
parameters to DGI (or some other similair interface in Arachne). This
makes you able to make a directory browser/tool like wwwman, but isn't
wwwman but rather an external tool that plugs into Arachne. I didn't say
it'd be an internal way of handling it, but at least it'd work. Then, if
one needed to do something that Arachne handles internally, it'd supply
the short name to either the user for entering, or if there was a mime.cfg
entry for the function, send it through it.
Have I explained my thinking better now?
Anyway, what did Sergei (I *think* it was him) need LFNs for? It's much
easier for me to explain something when I can give an example...
> Those who want to try and understand it on their own can look in mime.cfg
> (might be dgi.cfg or something like that for later versions, but 1.50 s.r.c
> has them there anyway).
mime.cfg and dgi.txt exist. I have read them both. Worked with
both. Anything else? =)
/petri
