Csuite Lynx chokes (fwd)

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On 27 Jun 97 at 12:41, Edward Dyer wrote about Re: Csuite Lynx chokes 
(fwd):

I have installed weblint on Blue Sky and will run 
http://www.freenet.mb.ca/docs/user/guide/index.html
through it.

Folks at Chebucto, thanks for checking out the URL.

   Kevin G

> Le Jeu, 26 Jun 1997, Stephen Rice écrivait :
> 
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 22:19:58 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Stephen Rice <steve@freenet.mb.ca>
> > To: csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca
> > Subject: Csuite Lynx chokes (fwd)
> > 
> > Just an interesting problem, with our version of Lynx, this whole 
> > document comes up no problem but with the CSUITE Lynx the Appendices of 
> > the document do not work and neither do the document A NAMEs.  It seems 
> > to have chopped the result HTML before it could finish.
> > 
> > Try it yourself.  Come in as guest to see our Lynx (telnet to 
> > winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca, login as guest), see option Help (on the main 
> > menu), then Documentation then select the User Guide.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?  Thanks,
> 
> What should the document end with, according to your version?  This?
> -- paste apparent end using CCN Beta-Lynx Version 2.7ac-0.36
> Int'l.--
>     Version: 0.1c - Thursday, 26-Jun-97 21:06:29 CDT
>     URL: http://www.freenet.mb.ca/docs/user/guide/index.html
>     URL = "http:///docs/user/guide/index.html" For further
>     information
> please contact: menu@freenet.mb.ca
> ------ end paste ----
> The first hyperlink worked, several following did not :(

That is correct.  The second URL should have been removed.

> Netscape 3.0 shows the same end, and a couple of randomly chosen
> #links worked there.

Netscape 4.xx crashes on me as I approach the end of doc.  The 
original document may be correct but the "<--#include" and the
"<--#exec cgi=" commands may be inserting bad HTML.

> On the other hand  (Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.20) built for Win 95
> stopped in the middle of the registration form :( and only the first
> hyperlink worked (the others jumped back to the top, perhaps as if
> the link were not found.)

That is what Blue Sky's (Solaris) compilation of Chebucto's Lynx is 
doing.

> As a further note, we occasionally saw, in the early days of running
> CSuite Build under Lynx, that the links stopped working after the
> "watch the progress" document reached about 200 pages or so.  I
> don't know whether we were able to find a fix to this or not.  CAN
> ANYBODY ELSE REPORT on that?
> 
> Your document, at 175984 bytes (according to Netscape) must be
> pushing that same sort of limit.
> 
> Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca   (902) H 826-7496  CCN  Assistant
> Postmaster http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/    W 426-4894  CSuite
> Technical Workshop Religion Page Editor, Chebucto Community Network
> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca
> 
> 
> >    Steve
> > 
> > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > Stephen Rice                                        Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
> > Technical Services Committee                               steve@freenet.mb.ca
> > Blue Sky Community Networks of Manitoba, Inc.         Info: info@freenet.mb.ca
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 21:17:52 -0500
> > From: Kevin_Georgison <keving@freenet.mb.ca>
> > To: Technical Services Software Team <software@freenet.mb.ca>
> > Subject: Csuite Lynx chokes
> > 
> > Csuite Lynx chokes on the hypertext in 
> > http://www.freenet.mb.ca/docs/user/guide/index.html
> > _________________________________________________________
> > Kevin Georgison     E-Mail: mailto:keving@freenet.mb.ca
> >                     http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~georgkev
> > 
> > Technical Services Committee
> > Muddy Waters Community Network.
> >   http://www.freenet.mb.ca
> > _________________________________________________________
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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