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Re: lynx-dev patch to add description of extended INCLUDE syntax to
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev patch to add description of extended INCLUDE syntax to |
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Mon, 31 May 1999 10:33:22 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> From: Vlad Harchev <address@hidden>
> :
> >in global lynx.cfg (and this line won't be implied by lynx) - only if
> >sysadmin
> >wish to include the user-specific conf. file, the line similar to given
> >should
> :
> >mean). Ask Larry Virden what he think about it.
> :
>
> I myself can't imagine putting an include for a user specified config file
> into a global config file. I can however imagine individual users using
> includes to include certain site specific configuration files in cases where
> users have access to providing their own configuration.
It's unusual (an example doesn't come to mind readily, but Lynx is not unique).
The user include-file would normally shadow a system default file. (But we
can do it better in 2.8.3).
> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:address@hidden>
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