Re: lynx-dev Making download and print work under Windos

[Doug Kaufman]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Victor Schneider, Ph. D. wrote:
> 
> > If you define the Dos 'copy' command as a downloading method in lynx.cfg:
> > 
> > DOWNLOADER:Copy the file to another location:copy /B /V %s  %s:TRUE
> > 
> > you find it doesn't work.
> 
>  Could you please submit patches/documentation (like "lynx on Win32 guide")
> instead of notes like these? It seems nobody cares about support for
> lynx on Win32 here (except for Jim who just compiles lynxes). Otherwise it's

This isn't something new. DOS/Win9x programs requiring path arguments
frequently don't run from programs ported from unix, since forward
slashes for paths may not be recognized. The Win9x binary used to
be distributed with a binary of "cp.exe" for exactly this reason.
The routine distribution of cp stopped when copying from the temp
directory (as part of DOWNLOAD) was made internal in the DOS and Win9x
ports. Shell scripts or batch files can usually be constructed to get
around the problems of using DOS/Win9x programs directly.

Since many of the DOS/Windows porting problems may be
compiler-dependent, it would also be helpful if the compiler were
specified in the report.
                                 Doug
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