Re: lynx-dev nsl-fork default

[Philip Webb]

980822 Doug Kaufman wrote: 
> 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?
> MSDOS doesn't allow forking. No one has yet written
> alternative code for lynx that allows these actions in MSDOS.
 
Jason McBrayer & Eric pointed out that forking is resource-intensive.

thanx: in that case, it may well be best to leave disable as default,
but shouldn't the docs be warning people of these problems?
i'm willing to amend my patches (again), following further comment.

this -- & the printer patches -- really bring out
how deficient Lynx documentation is in some places.

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