Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.1pre.1

[dickey]

> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 address@hidden wrote: 
>  
> > > - The "Modify location/Change location" command doesn't work a at all. 
> > > It doesn't accept sub-directories in the current directory, full pathes, 
> > > ".." (Alert!: Destination is not a valid directory! Request denied.) or 
> > > "~" (Alert!: Unable to get status of '/tmp/ismael/~'.) 
> > 
> > will see (perhaps that was from dev29) 
>  
> No, it is older than dev29. A long time ago, I believe in the time of 
> Foteos, Lynx stooped recognizing the "~", then, maybe a dozen or half-dozen 
> versions ago, it stopped recognizing everything. 

well, I will at least try to understand the problem - look/see if there's
a low-impact change (there's a lot of overly-complicate url/pathname
translations, and "~" is in the area that I've not yet tried cleaning up).
  
> Well, it seems that all those warnings don't do any harm to Lynx but I 
> thought that you should know, in case you didn't... 

I do try to fix the warnings - because some of them indicate real problems.
Some aren't fixable unless you lose in other places (such as type-checking).

The ones that I've left as const-casting are on calls to external functions
that I would like to believe are treated as readonly (I have in mind one
case where that assumption wasn't true - but the workaround is usually more
trouble).

> By the way, if you leave an empty line between the quotes and your text (as 
> I did above with your text), your messages would be easier to read. 

like this,

>  
> Ismael 
> --  
>  
>        +--------------------------------------------------------------+ 
>        | ISMAEL CORDEIRO            | mailto:address@hidden           | 
>        | Production sound mixer     | http://www.cam.org/~ismael/     | 
>        | Montréal - Québec - Canada | ftp://ftp.cam.org/users/ismael/ | 
>        +--------------------------------------------------------------+ 


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Thomas E. Dickey
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