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Date:	Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:52:26 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Lynx / filesystem problem

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In <200209022053.NAA015.83@warp>, on 09/02/02
at 01:20 PM, leganii@surfree.com said:

>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 recall at one time you needed to tweak your ext-2 settings to be case
insensitive. Could this be return of this problem?

>I can't believe the file names for HPFS are that different
>from what ext-2 can handle, but I may be completely wrong.

TTBOMK, they are not. The problem is likely to be elsewhere.

>Is there anyway this program could of been compiled
>to absolutely require HPFS?

If the application required EA's, then it might not work of ext-2,
although I doubt this it your problem.

Lynx is open soure, you might want to take a look at the code that's
generating the message.

Steven

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