Re: LYNX-DEV bug report on userdefs.h documentation

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:

> I wanted to try the lynxcgi email stuff recently posted, so I went into 
> lynx to compile with LYNXCGI_LINKS defined. I found that it said I had 
> to set LYNXCGI_PATH, but such is not found anywhere in lynx.cfg. Looking 
> for LYNXCGI_LINKS, I found TRUSTED_LYNXCGI which looks like what I want, 
> but the explanation of how to use it was a bit sparse.
> Can someone confirm that TRUSTED_LYNXCGI is indeed what I want to set?
> What is the meaning of "<tab>" in the lynx.cfg documentation on 
> TRUSTED_LYNXCGI? Does it refer to an imbedded tab character? Why?
> Can multiple paths be defined in TRUSTED_LYNXCGI? Is that the purpose of 
> <tab>?
> If these questions are answered for me, I would be happy to make some
> modifications to the userdefs.h and lynx.cfg stuff to reflect the way
> things should work for LYNXCGI_LINKS.

I only needed to define LYNXCGI_LINKS.  I didn't do anything with
TRUSTED_LYNXCGI or LYNXCGI_PATH.  My operating system is NetBSD.  YMMV.

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