On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Leonid P.:]
> >Also, you lost Klaus' point on LYUtils.c ifdef'ing - you very very wrong
> >when changing #ifndef to #ifdef entirely (this will affect Unix ports).
> >
> Are you sure? Did you compile it for Linux to be certain? I know that
> the Windows versions of lynx had strange problems with input before the
> change, froze up under Windows 98, etc. And, with the change, they
> work just fine.
It's pretty obvious. The Windows versions had strange problems, you
say. So you "grab" the code for non-Windows for the Windows case,
*away* from the non-Windows case. That's exactly what changing the
#ifndef to #ifdef does.
To humor you, I actually tried it. Yep, now lynx on linux has "very strange
problems" indeed, just as expected. I assume just the same kind of thing
that you must have seen on Windows before the "grab". Lynx seems to hang
when retrieving a document (or even looking up a name), but you can pace it
through its steps by hitting a key (like simply spacebar) a lot.
(Btw regarding a different topic - it's in this strange "paced" mode that
I first noticed a problem with Tom Zerucha's proxy hanging (and it wouldn't
recover even when pacing lynx through). iirc.)
Klaus
