Re: lynx-dev problem with saving pages in lynx

[Philip Webb]

990905 Klaus Weide wrote: 
> On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 address@hidden wrote:
>> A friend of mine since a few days he have a problem with saving pages.
>> When he want to save a document and press the p or d he get an error:
>>  allert
>>  unable access to document..
>> Before he could safe this pages.
>> The menu of save to local file etc doesn't come on the screen.
> That sounds like a problem with generating temporary files.

using 2-8-2dev.19 on IRIX 5.3 with csh ,
if i move my (normal)  ~/tmp  to  ~/tmp1  & enter  p  to test things,
the response is "Unable to open print options file",
which is not what the user says his friend encountered.
"Unable to access document" typically means the site if busy or down,
when the user should try again later; a sudden change could result
from a holiday, system test, change in URL or other things. 
 
> It would help to know what version & operating system he is using,
> & what changed between then (when it worked) and now.
 
yes, if there's still a problem, tell us all that & especially the URL.

VH also responded: he's correct about  d  , but not  p .

also further for lynx-dev generally,  userdefs.h  says:

 * The definition here can be overridden at run time by setting a
 * "LYNX_TEMP_SPACE" environment symbol.

this does not work here (system details above):
 set LYNX_TEMP_SPACE="~/temp"  has not effect ( ~/temp  does not exist):
Lynx continues to use the value in  userdefs.h .

also, shouldn't Lynx give an explicit error message
when it can't find a directory for temporary files,
rather than the less helpful message above?
eg "Error: cannot find directory or space for temporary file".

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