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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have been getting this error frequently using David's uclibc-static lynx 
2.6.16dev16 static, compiled without libz.

A test showed that the lynx 2.8.5 that I compiled did not get this error 
at one website, so I put it back and did some more web research.

A search on this phrase and libz got me one hit, with 2.8.5, which I could 
not read because it had an 'error uncompressing temporary file'.

So this probably is not related to libz, it is a lynx shortcoming.

Research using links2 tried to explain the problem, something to do with 
HTTP1, and browsers other than lynx don't have it, and they were supposed 
to fix the problem but seem to have made it worse instead.

I have gone back to 2.8.5 and if I still can't read a site, I use links2 
as a downloader (go to the link and type D and choose view with links2). 
Unfortunately Steven's static links2 was compiled without SSL and the 
delilinux one (or was it JP's?) has lots of dependencies (libjpeg, libpng, 
libtiff, libc.6...).

With luck, the released 2.8.6 will work better on compressed files 
(compressed with gzip).


If you installed the new package and want to use the older version:

You need lynx.cfg and lynx.lss in different places for the two packages 
since they were compiled that way.  /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg for David's, 
and I think it is /usr/lib/lynx.cfg for mine - it will complain and tell 
you where it goes.  I posted both packages as well as the new binary.

lynx.lss is needed if you want to change colors.  Without it you see green 
on black, which I like.  With it you can in theory set underlines to show 
up as underlines on a TTL monitor but mdacon won't show underlines.
It might go in /lib or /usr/lib for the old version - try both until it 
works.

If two people request it I will post the old binary standalone.  The old 
package is larger because it includes lots of documentation (which I 
separated out when I made the new package).

Mail is not working for me in BL3.  If I type 6 often nothing happens, and 
sometimes I get one line of confusing text starting 0/0 term 128x47 (I 
forget  - is it supposed to work like this?.  One time I was able to type 
1 and get the configuration screen but since then nothing at all happens.

Q always works to quit the menu.  I notice that the numbers and Q are in 
bold.  This caused problems for me in an early version of BL3.  I might 
try editing the menu to remove the bold and see if it works better.

BL3.4 with Opera 7.23 is working nicely for our friend, who now wants DSL 
because his site is too slow.  We proved it was not the hard drive 
yesterday.  BL3.40 loads in 25 seconds (busybox takes longer for ext2 than 
loop - why, does it check the drive for something?).  Opera in about the 
same.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org