Re: lynx-dev Always accept cookies?

[brian j. pardy]

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Ismael Cordeiro wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, brian j. pardy wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, it exists. The ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES lynx.cfg variable was introduced in
> > > the 2.8.1dev19 version (1998/07/31).
> > 
> > The name has since been changed to "accept all cookies",
> 
> Yes, in dev19 the variable name was EAT_ALL_COOKIES. The name was changed to
> ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES in dev20.

Right. 

> > but if anyone out there is using 2.8 and doesn't want to upgrade to the
> > dev series to use this option, I have an old version of my patch (against
> > 2.8rel2) on my page, at
> > <URL:http://www.psnw.com/~posterkid/code/lynx-eat_all_cookies.patch>.
> 
> Well, to use your patch one has to recompile lynx, so why not compiling the
> most recent version?

I have no reason not to, but if one is maintaining lynx for general use by
many users, I wouldn't expect them to want to keep up with each dev release,
it could be a little bothersome.


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