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Date:	Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:20:12 PST7
From:	leganii@surfree.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Lynx / filesystem problem

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Firing this off before leaving to eat, hoping someone
can provide some insight before I get back.

I'm trying to install Lynx 2.8.4, to upgrade my system from 2.8.1.

The documents say that it needs HPFS to run.
I've got FAT, and ext-2, but no HPFS.
Unzipped everything into a FAT zip disk,
and ponted the TMP variable to a directory on an ext-2
filesystem partition.
Everything seems to run fine until I try doing anything
that generates a temporary file, like going to
the configuration options menu (issueing the 'o' command
which would eventually
create the _lynxrc personal startup/preferences file).
It then issues an error message
'Alert!: Unable to open tempfile'
I've tried moving everything over to an ext-2 partition,
and the same problem crops up.

I can't believe the file names for HPFS are that different
from what ext-2 can handle, but I may be completely wrong.
Is there anyway this program could of been compiled
to absolutely require HPFS?

I'm thinking about getting a zip disk to put an
HPFS system on,
or possibly update my ramdisk driver
(wasn't there something called Ram64 or such on Hobbes),
and try running from one of these.

Anyway, these are the details I can think of right now,
TIA.
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Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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