LYNX-DEV Various things (Was Re: Displaying graphics)

[Drazen Kacar]

Foteos Macrides wrote:

> And then, unfortunately, 
> Drazen Kacar <address@hidden> wrote to lynx-dev with
>       CC to Richard Stallman:
> 
> >Let's take a look at hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu...
> >[... followed by the wrong section of lynx.cfg, and misinformation that,
>   as a regular on lynx-dev, he should know better than to post.  Sigh...]

It's been a long time since I compiled Lynx. Sigh... I suppose I've
become a Netscape luser...

> 
>       Nobody should be compiling Lynx without first going through
> userdefs.h and setting the definitions appropriately for the system.
> If you are including a binary in the GNU CD-ROM, feel free to define
> XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND to whatever GNU-endorsed viewer for image/* you
> like.

BTW, I can't find xview executable anywhere. The only xview I can find is a
library, not a command. My man page (Solaris 2.5) says:

:: xview(7)          Device and Network Interfaces          xview(7)
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: NAME
::      xview - xview toolkit information
:: 
:: SYNOPSIS
::      There is no xview command per se, but this manual page  will
::      briefly describe XView features and functions.
:: 
:: AVAILABILITY
::      XView is available with the OpenWindows distribution.
:: 
:: DESCRIPTION
::      XView (X Window-System-based  Visual/Integrated  Environment
::      for  Workstations)  is  an  Open Look user-interface toolkit
::      which supports development  of  interactive,  graphics-based
::      applications   running  under  the  X  Window  System.   For
::      detailed information see the XView  Programming  Manual  and
::      the XView Reference Manual.

It is a library on all anonymous ftp sites I looked into. I think it was
Sun's proprietary library at one time, but they released the sources.
If xview (executable) exists, can somebody point me to it?

> 
>       Dave (i.e., Drazen with some 8-bit character replaces, but
> Dave in LANG=en_US 8-) did correctly inform you that users can

This 'en_US' thing could be somewhat misleading on this list. It is an
environment variable on Unix and all is good in that context.

However, HTTP has a similar construct. If you put a preference like that
in Accept-Language header, servers with language negotiation ability will
try to select 'en-US' variant. There are bugs in some of them (I'm not
sure which, could be Apache) and those won't select 'en' version if 'en-US'
is not available. Suppose you have:

   Accept-Language: en-us, de; q=0.2

If the server has variants in English (as 'en') and German (as 'de') and
the above mentioned bug, you'll get a German variant. With:

   Accept-Language: en, de; q=0.2

you'll get an English variant.


I'll try not to vaste bandwidth completely. Here are some corrections for
userdefs.h (now, why did I look at it at all? :) for Lynx 2-6FM with
29. 1. 1997. as the last modification date. (That's 01/29/1997 in LANG=en_US :)

At the end of the file, there are defines for paths for various utilities.
Solaris 2.5 corrections:

#define COMPRESS_PATH     /bin/compress
#define UNCOMPRES_PATH    /bin/uncompress
#define ZCAT_PATH         /bin/zcat

/bin is a symbolic link to /usr/bin, BTW.

OSF 4.0 (a.k.a. Digital UNIX) info:

Compress, uncompress, uudecode, gzip & zcat available in /bin, /usr/bin &
/usr/ucb. Yes, gzip comes with the OS.

On OSF 3.0, compress, uncompress, uudecode & zcat can be found in
/bin & /usr/bin. Gzip does not come with the OS, so I suppose it will
be in /usr/local/bin.

ULTRIX 4.3 & SunOS 4.x:
    compress, uncompress & zcat in /usr/ucb. Uudecode in /usr/bin.

Since FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI & Linux have their very own ifdef, I suppose
other Unices should have it also. All praise ifdefs! :)

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