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Re: LYNX-DEV bug?


From: Wayne Buttles
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV bug?
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:54:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dennis Moore wrote:

> LYMainLoop.c, lines 376-7:
> printf("\nlynx: Can't access startfile %s\n",
>                                startfile);
> 
> shouldn't this go to stderr?  i glanced through the source to see what
> kinds of things _did_ go to stderr, and noticed that most, if not all of
> them, are prefaced by an if (TRACE).  the main reason i'm asking this is
> because someone was trying to write a perl script which did a 
> lynx -dump | ispell, and didn't want the pipe to occur if lynx dumped
> something to stderr.  "can't access startfile" seemed like an error to
> both of us.

If I am not mistaken, this is a FATAL error.  That is why it goes to
stdout.  Lynx will not run if the startfile is not there so it complains
instead.

Wayne

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