Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:15:58 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	John Schucker <gwynn AT msn DOT globaldialog DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: lynx 2.7 under dos.
In-Reply-To:	<5g7rpd$h7r$1@news3.alpha.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970313131446.6426J-100000@is>
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On 13 Mar 1997, John Schucker wrote:

> I am trying to compile lynx 2.7 under DOS, with djgpp.  I've been in 
> touch with the author, and he seemed to think it wouldn't work, and that 
> it wouldn't be able to keep up with the libwww.a versions.  I think it 
> could, with say a sed script to change all of the LFN refs, but I've done 
> that by hand this time.

Why did you need to ``change all of the LFN refs''?  DOS truncates the
long names automatically, so this should only be a problem if the
original distribution uses filenames that are illegal on MSDOS, like
if they have more than one dot.

Anyway, there's a DJGPP port of Lynx that you might find useful:

	http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/

> However, I can get everything to make except libwww.a, because it needs 
> the file .created.  However, when I change the (LOB)/.created to 
> (LOB)/created or _created, I get:
> make commonma: 149, missing separator, stop.

Please post the contents of the Makefile around line 149.  The usual
cause for this is that a command begins with a SPACE instead of a TAB
character, so if you have edited the Makefile with an editor that
converts tabs to spaces, that's the cause for your problems.

> personally don't see why it must be restricted to being made with win95 
> simply because it depends on LFN.  Surely there's some way around this?

The problems with long names should not be that hard.  Please describe
what exactly were the LFN-related changes that you needed to do.

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