Re: LYNX-DEV One more footnote on getting lynx.exe to work under Windows

[T.E.Dickey]

> > I hereby nominate `#define FNAMES_8_3' for inclusion in the configure
> > script used by lynx, and request that the configure script _test_ for
> > `cygwin' in the system name that it gets when it starts up.
> 
> Why the heck would you want to limit yourself to 8.3 under a operating
> system that supports LFNs?
the same reason why autoconf has a test for "long filenames" (e.g., > 14)
on *nix boxes: there are boxes where you may build/install a program
that have old filesystems.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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