Re: lynx-dev Patch for pre.9

[dickey]

> While looking at the temp directory code, I found that DOS viewers 
> didn't work if the temp directory was given unix style. The mixed 
> forward and backward slashes confused the system. The patch makes 

The www names aren't synonymouse with unix (there's additional parsing).
You may want to revisit that...

> things work, but I have compilation warnings that I don't know how to 
> fix. I suspect that this is a simple fix for someone more familiar 
> with C. I hope someone can fix this and put it in the code. While I 
> was at it, I added the TMPDIR code for unix. The warning messages are: 

I did that last night - will merge.
  
> LYMain.c: In function `main': 
> LYMain.c:688: warning: passing arg 2 of `HTSACopy' makes pointer \ 
> from integer without a cast 
> LYMain.c:690: warning: passing arg 2 of `HTSACopy' makes pointer \ 
> from integer without a cast 
> LYMain.c:692: warning: passing arg 2 of `HTSACopy' makes pointer \ 
> from integer without a cast 

that's a missing #include (I'll look/see).  doesn't happen when I build
on Unix, so it's due to one of the #ifdef DOSPATH includes.
  
> I also found one potential problem with the DJGPP makefile for 
> libwww.a, in that it uses the 8+3 truncated name for a directory. This 
> is in the include directive that picks up tcp.h. I don't know if this 
> was related to Wayne's recent problem compiling, but it shouldn't hurt 
> to fix it. 

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