Re: lynx-dev Re: STARTFILE patch

[Leonid Pauzner]

14-Apr-99 14:36 Henry Nelson wrote:
>> > The patch (without doc changes) increases the discrepancy between
>> > documentation and reality, but I also question its usefulness.

> I sincerely believe that the default for STARTFILE should remain
> "http://lynx.browser.org/";.

>      2) As Klaus has already pointed out, if you succeed in
>         accessing lynx.browser.org, then you can be sure that
>         Lynx is functional.  Just being able to access local
>         files says nothing about getting onto the Web, where
>         most people want to go.  Networking problems come hand
>         in hand with Lynx.  It is true that lynx.browser.org
>         is not the most stable or fast site around, but quite
>         often as not it is not the source of problems.

>      3) Rather than making "." the default, I could see it
>         documented, in lynx.cfg and perhaps also PROBLEMS,
>         as one step in the process of debugging network problems.

Agree with Henry.