Re: lynx-dev nsl-fork default

[Doug Kaufman]

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Philip Webb wrote:

> given that we have to rely on a configure switch  --enable-nsl-fork 
> to stop a look-up with `z', why is the default disable?
> shouldn't it be enable?

Not all operating systems allow this. MSDOS, for example, doesn't allow
forking. No one has yet written alternative code for lynx that allows
these actions in MSDOS.
                                Doug
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