On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > > maybe John Davis would be willing to make the change (he wrote that
> > > part of the code originally, I believe). iirc, part of what you're
> > > asking to change is hardcoded in the slang library.
> >
> > ...... we found out that the source of the problem was not
> > "hardcoded in the slang library". It was just something in the lynx code. Now
>
> ==>> SLtt_add_color_attribute(4, SLTT_ULINE_MASK)
>
> The function is "hardcoded in the slang library".
Like any other library function.
> *How* it is used is "just something in the lynx code," except that someone
> at sometime seriously thought that that was the right way in the right
> place, and probably was right at the time.
That's the point. When people say "it's hardcoded into slang library" as an
excuse for doing nothing to correct the problem I understand that it can't be
changed without changing the slang library. As you can see, it's not true.
The problem was corrected just by changing the lynx code.
Ismael
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