Re: lynx-dev dev.23: extended INCLUDE syntax broken for DOSPATH

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> >  Probably that character should be '*'? What lynx developers think about it 
> > (suggestions of characters are welcome) 
> >  
> >  Another idea - seems that ':' is unusual character in unix filenames - so 
> > we 
> 
> not really - I use it (I do run into the problem of putting it in filenames
> that I would try to inspect with lynx from the command-line ;-).

  Don't you use newlines in filenames? :) In this case the code in LYReadCFG.c
 will definitely fail...
 
  And I think you use '*' less frequently than ':' in filenames.

  IMO we can restrict outself from using such chars in filenames of lynx
configuration files (at least).  
 
> > can support this feature on unix as it is (without changing extra logic 
> > like 
> > quoting, escaping, etc - just ifdef'ing), and disable it on DOS,VMS, MacOS 
> > - I 
> > don't think there are a lot of ISP that run these OSes. 
> >  Or we can provide this feature on these OSes, but delimiter will be 
> > different 
> > from ':' for them - may be '*' on these OSes and still ':' on unix? 
> >  
> >  So any opinions? 
> >  
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad