Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue)

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 06:19:27PM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Webmaster Jim wrote:
> >I've patched against dev16 (nothing here should have changed a for a
> >while) 2 "retro" Lynx changes. One removes GOPHER code, and the other
> 
> When lynx is compiled without gopher code, does attempting to go to a gopher
> link provide some kind of useful message, like:
> This version of Lynx was compiled without gopher support. Ask your sysadmin
> to recompile with gopher support if you need access to gopher links.
> 
> Well, that needs to be cut down to <80 chars, I guess.. but you get the idea.
> Some relatively friendly error message that shows that Lynx can support
> gopher links.

No, my patch just "zeroes" the HTGopher.o module. Someone who has a
valid gopher URL could probably test what it does. Since I have seen no
gopher URLs in years (and never one of much use), I have little interest
in documenting how to do this other than: it's in the configure file as
--enable-gopher and --disable-gopher. Seems pretty self-explanatory. It
also shows up in the configure options screen as NO_GOPHER=1.

> Heck, I'd say that Usenet support would be a good thing to rip out for
> this Lynx-lite effort.  Giving a reference (or link, if there's a Usenet site)
> to a "real" news reader like trn would be good for the error condition in that
> case.

I've created a template of sorts. Someone could extend this to
NO_NEWS=1. This will be different than disabling news with command line
options.

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