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Re: lynx-dev re COPYHEADER COPYING
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Re: lynx-dev re COPYHEADER COPYING |
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Sat, 22 May 1999 20:17:43 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, Henry Nelson said:
> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 08:53:49 +0900 (JST)
>
> I question the following change in pre.5.
> 1999-05-20 (2.8.2pre.5)
> * correct links to COPYHEADER and COPYING in about_lynx.html, by pointing
> to
> author's URLs, rather than to files which are not installed anyway -PG
> The underlying problem is that the install-help target is not working as
> intended (perhaps an example of something becoming too complex to be
> maintained). I think the links should be reinstated to point to local
> files that ARE installed. All it should take is to find the command,
> `cp COPY* lynx_help`, which at one time must have existed, and turn it
> on for all types of installation (plain or gzipped) of the help file set.
>
Well, I did this for one of the two files involved (I hastily neglected
the other.) Then Kim observed that this didn't satisfy the requirement
for gzipped help files. That requires a modification to a sed script
to change the suffix on the links in the html doc. I ran out of
wind. I have scant pride of authorship in having changed two
links; :-) I'll gladly bow to anyone who submits a patch satisfying
Henry and Kim.
-- gil
> The conclusion of the discussion about these files in the autumn/winter
> of 1997 was that they should reside in the top directory, but that the links
> to them from the help files should be maintained. (My original proposal was
> to stick them both in the lynx_help subdirectory, but I retracted this idea
> in favor of the general concensus. Note that COPYING used to be in the
> defunct about_lynx subdirectory.)
>
> __Henry