Re: [Lynx-dev] Auto-session trouble.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote:

> > For lynx, the main blocking change is a detail in the fixes I've been
> > working on for improving xml support.  The most recent snapshot-patch for
> > lynx is
> >
> >         ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.7dev.9e.patch.gz
>
> And so did this, as soon as I realized it was looking for a
> directory named `lynx2.8.7dev.9+' [please excuse my ignorance;
> may have just taught myself how to read diff notation that
> afternoon].

The "+" would be the older directory.  I usually make build-directories
by copying the older directory to one whose name corresponds to the
version-label that I'll use.  The older directory contains just a bzip'd
tar file, and the "+" is the uncompress/untarred contents.

> BTW, is there a central snippet of code somewhere that gets the
> user's home directory from the environment, or fakes one up if
> running under Windows or something?  Just wondered if the various
> features that use `~' use the same function to expand it.

LYAddPathToHome() is the most useful - it adds a filename to the home 
directory path, taking into account syntax differences on Unix, VMS and 
Windows/DOS - src/LYUtils.c

For just the home-directory, Home_Dir().

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