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diff --git a/docs/CHANGES2.4 b/docs/CHANGES2.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d3e4f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CHANGES2.4 @@ -0,0 +1,891 @@ +--- Rename of Lynx2-3-FM and release as Lynx2-4 (08-June-1995) --- +============================================================================== +06-08-95 +* All of the changes from lynx2-3-FM are now located at ftp2.cc.ukans.edu. + We will call this version lynx2-4 and all new changes will be added here. + - JP +06-05-95 +* Added isc support based on post to lynx-dev from Ami Fischman + (a540ami@pic.ucla.edu). - FM +06-04-95 +* Initialize t1->name before the StrAllocCopy() in LYMainLoop.c for + DIRED_SUPPORT tagging. - Rick Mallett (rmallett@ccs.carleton.ca) +* Don't bother creating a /tmp copy of local files for downloading + under the DIRED_SUPPORT, and don't include "Save to disk" in the + download menu for such files. - RM +* Deal with any newlines or tabs in statusline messages, along lines + in patch from Peter Marquardt. - FM +* Various fixes to ensure terminations of strings, along lines suggested + by PM. - FM +* Made HTAlert messages more readable in trace mode. +* Replaced info.cern.ch with www.w3.org in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg. - GL +* Allow definition of the global configuration file (lynx.cfg) path and + name via a "LYNX_CFG" VMS logical or Unix environment variable. Will + override the "LYNX_CFG_FILE" definition in userdefs.h. The -cfg command + line switch will override those. SYS$LOGIN (VMS) or '~' (Unix) can be + used in the path to treat the global configuration file as a personal + configuration file ($HOME will be substituted for '~'). Meets objective + in patch posted by Danny Meyer (mayer@ljsrv2.enet.dec.com) but does + not seek lynx.cfg in the user's HOME directory without an explicit + directive to do so. Issue a screen message and then exit if the + configuration file is not readable (rather than continuing as if + one had been found and read). - FM +* Added protections from NAMEless INPUT or TEXTAREA tags. - FM +05-29-95 +* Changed close(*s) typo in HTTCP.c to NETCLOSE(*s). Caused tight loops if + on error *s became stdin. - Peter_Marquardt (wwwutz@cha01.tfh-berlin.de) +05-20-95 +* Mods of proxying/gatewaying code, replace obsolete info.cern.ch default + URL addresses with www.w3.org, and add option to use the new www.w3.org + wais search gateway in cover page for wais searches. - FM +05-10-95 +* If a startfile specified on the command line maps to a MIME type + which invokes an alternate display device, allow -homepage, if also + specified, to be substituted for startfile on quitting from the display + device, rather than forcing an exit due to the original startfile having + been neither text/html nor text/plain. Based on a patch from GL, with + protections against possible infinite getfile() loops added. - FM +* Include -t switch when pico is the editor for reply_by_mail() in + LYMail.c. - GL +05-04-95 +* Oops. Had zipped the wrong LYReadCFG.c in yesterday's mods. - FM +05-03-95 +* Do not override any external proxy and no_proxy variables with those + in lynx.cfg. Bug fixes in code for setting proxy variables on Unix, + based on patches from Roman Czyborra (czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de). - FM +* Fixes for tagging when Lynx jumps to another screen and then comes back, + and deal with possibility of screen outputs from compress/decompress + utilities. - GL +* Added support for Sequent's DYNIX/ptx operating system, and bug fixes + in HTTCP.c's BSDselect(). - Rodney Barnett (RBarnett@us.teltech.com) +* Increased limits in select() loops to 5000 tries. - FM +* Specify /nomember for compilations with DECC. It's not the default + on AXP and the code assumes byte alignment. - FM +04-19-95 +* Added Alan Hirsh's script (LynxDir:VMSPrint.com) for dealing with busy + VMS print queues such that Lynx might otherwise delete the temporary + file before it has been queued for printing. - FM +* Added lots of type casting to the mathematical operations in GridText.c + to minimize possible sizing/alignment problems for DECC/AXP (and any + Unix flavors that use the Alpha chip). - FM +04-17-95 +* Use test=test -z "$LYNX_VERSION" like test=test -n "$LYNX_VERSION" + in mailcap files simply as flags for non-LYNX versus LYNX environment, + without actually bothering to execute a test. - FM +* Issue "** Bad HTML!!! Use -trace to diagnose. **" statusline messages + when bad HTML is encountered, and suppress those statusline messages in + favor of the TRACE messages when -trace is used. - FM +* Fixed anchor deletion problem in yesterday's ISMAP mods. - FM +* Removed -ltermcap from AIX makes (AIX doesn't use it). - FM +04-16-95 +* Send a 0,0 coordinate pair if a user clicks on an ISMAP link, so that + it's handled equivalently to clicks on an ISMAP submit button, and + (typically) will return the server's default. Note that the default + often is the parent document, and if so, the current document will + be returned via redirection (pointlessly 8-). However, this mod + allows the WebMaster to use a pure-text document as the default for + Lynx. - FM +* Protections against crashes for inappropriately positioned form tags. - FM +* Fixes in handling of configurable INEWS path. - FM +* Support for VT500 series terminals. - George Cook (cook@wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu) +04-12-95 +* Makefile tweaks for bsdi and aix4. - FM +04-11-95 +* Mods for building with BSD Interactive (bsdi). - FM +04-08-95 +* Added translation of HTML entities and decimal escaping for the + VALUEs of INPUT and OPTION tags. - FM +* For TYPE="image" INPUT tags, use "[IMAGE]-Submit" as a pseudo-ALT + string, and submit a 0,0 coordinate pair if it's clicked, which + typically will invoke the server's default (I guess something is + better than nothing. 8-). - FM +* Handle (possibly multiple) angle brackets in bookmark and showinfo + link names. - FM +* Fixed typo in for-ultrix code in LYMain.c. - FM +04-04-95 +* Added ability to set proxy environment variables via lynx.cfg. - FM +04-01-95 +* Added handling of the HTML 3.0 attributes for ISINDEX tags: + ISINDEX HREF="reference" PROMPT="string" + The ACTION attribute didn't make it into HTML 2.0. For now, we'll keep + supporting it in Lynx by treating it as a synonym for HREF. - FM +03-31-95 +* Mods for AIX v4.1.1 and addition of make aix4. - FM +* Added prototype and extern declarations for BSDselect(). - FM +* Fixed bugs in form_getstr() that could clobber the stack. - GL +* Fixes for symlink handling. - GL +* Made LYShowInfo.c aware of the setuid, setgid and sticky file modes, + and nicer mode display if the file doesn't have the read bit set. - GL +03-30-95 +* Fixed glitch in BASE tag handling. - FM +03-29-95 +* Initialize pointers in add_trusted() of LYGetFile.c before the + StrAllocCopy() calls. - FM +03-26-95 +* Miscellaneous TRACE and related messaging tweaks. - FM +03-24-95 +* Handle defaulted localhost in file BASE tags, and related tweaks of + defaulted localhost handling in file URLs. - FM +* Use RM_PATH for both file and directory deletions with the DIRED_SUPPORT + remove function. - GL +--- STARTING 2.3-FM --- +============================================================================== +03-23-95 +* Designate this code set as lynx2-3-FM to avoid any confusion with the + official releases at UKans. - FM +* Tweaks of code for defaulted localhost in file URLs. Don't require + any host field marker in such URLs - FM +03-21-95 +* Added handling of defaulted localhost in file URLs. - FM +* More protections against bad HTML. - FM +* SYSLOGing enhancements. - GL +* Suspend curses during my_spawn()'s, and fixes of code for the child + and error return detection. - GL +03-20-95 +* More protections against potentially infinite loops. - FM +03-16-95 +* Enhancements of 'c'omment and mailto handling. - FM +* Mods to build.com for enabling submission to BATCH. - FM +* Ultrix terminal-handling fix. - Roman Czyborra (czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de) +03-15-95 +* Fixed bug in for-Unix directory listing code to screen out inaccessible + parent directories. Was also being applied to ftp listings. - FM +* Made bolding of H1 through H7 headers a lynx.cfg option, with the + non-bolding as the compilation default. - FM +03-13-95 +* Fixed bug in setting link[].lname elements to empty strings for form + INPUT_ANCHORs. Was causing showinfo() to report the links from the + previous document (yet another memory leak bites the dust 8-). - FM +* Numerous fixups of bold and underline handling. - FM +03-09-95 +* Increased the while() loop limit for select() tries in HTTCP.c to 500. - FM +* Memory allocation/free fixes in HTAccess.c. - FM +* Makefile and documentation tweaks. - FM +03-07-95 +* Implemented HT_BOLD when specified for headers in DefaultStyle.c. H1 is + now uppercase, bold, and centered. H2 - H7 are lower or mixed case, bold, + and progressively indented. - FM +* Miscellaneous enhancements of menu displays. - FM +* Allow tabs and '$' in lynxexec commands. - FM +* More TOUPPER/TOLOWER fixes. - FM +03-06-95 +* Added ability to set the INEWS path in lynx.cfg. - FM +03-05-95 +* Separated the newspost URL into newspost versus newsreply, and modified + LYNews.c to behave more rationally for new versus followup posting. - FM +* Added "mode reader" command for news list and article requests. - FM +* Enabled saving of list_dir_style settings in the user's RC file. - FM +* Don't restrict rearming SIGINT in LYClean.c for IGNORE_CTRL_C to just + SVR4. - FM +* Added numerous protections against core_dumps/ACCVIOs in HTML.c for bad + HTML. Should also help reduce likelihood of infinite while() loops and + a runaway CPU if binary files are mistyped and rendering is attempted. - FM +* Added (unsigned char) type casts in addch() calls for proper handling of + high value ISOLATIN1 characters. - FM +* Limited the while() loop for select()'s in HTTCP.c to 50 tries, to help + reduce likelihood of a runaway CPU on undetected terminal disconnects. - FM +* Fixed typo in build.com. - FM +* Added Craig's lynx_help and about_lynx files for the lynx2-3-7 distribution, + updated for lynx2-3-9 BETA. - FM +--- STARTING 2.3.9 BETA --- +============================================================================== +02-20-95 +* Updated doc files and passed on to UKans for archiving on the + ftp2.cc.ukans.edu server as 2.3.8 BETA. - FM +02-17-95 +* Further updates of building procedures for VMS. - FM +* Further updates of lynx.man, lynx.hlp and documentation. Indicate + that the inside_foo and outside_foo restrictions are not selective + on systems which lack utmp. - FM +* Changed yesterday's DGUX define to DGUX_OLD, because only older + Data General systems need it. - FM +02-16-95 +* Added Jeff's updates of lynx.man and lynx.hlp, further updated for + v2.3.8 - FM +* Fixed typos in LYMail.c and HTTPC.c. - FM +* Cleaned up #ifdef'ing for -DIGNORE_CTRL_C. - FM +* Added -DDGUX for using inet_addr(host).s_addr instead of inet_addr(host) + in HTParseInet() of HTTCP.c (Data General may need it). - FM +* Don't report "-help" as an invalid option. - FM +02-15-95 +* Handle HTML entities and decimal escaping in ALT strings. - FM +* Build fixups for TCPWARE. - FM +02-14-95 +* Added transmission of Accept-Language headers. A default preferred + language is defined in userdefs.h. It can be overridden via lynx.cfg. + Users can change that via the 'o'ptions menu and save their preference + in their RC file. - FM +* Tweak of FIXED record handling on VMS. - FM +* Defined Unix ZIP_PATH and UNZIP_PATH in userdefs.h. - FM +02-12-95 +* Added -localhost switch for restricting access to files and servers + on the local host. - FM +* Added -nobrowse switch for disabling directory browsing. - FM +* Added -selective switch for requiring a .www_browsable file in + each directory for browsing access to it. The enabling files + are not included in the directory listings. - FM +* Fixed up displaying of README files in directory listings on + VMS. - FM +* Replaced all tolower() and toupper() calls with the TOUPPER() and + TOLOWER() macros in HTUtils.h (should help deal with some of the + strange behavior reported for some flavors of Unix; see header of + HTUtils.h). - FM +Worked in mods from David Trueman (david@cs.dal.ca) - FM: +* Don't issue the ../ link in Unix local directory listings if the parent + directory is not readable (was already dealt with on VMS - FM). +* Include an Organization: header in Unix news postings, if possible + (was already dealt with on VMS - FM). +* Don't allow the editing of Unix mail headers because that is error + prone (no change on VMS; editable pseudo-headers are included for + informational purposes, but the real headers are those of the + account running Lynx - FM). +* Don't hardcode the Unix mv command; use MV_PATH define in userdefs.h. +* Moved the Unix COPY_COMAND define to userdefs.h as COPY_PATH. +* Completed the Unix ZIP support. +02-10-95 +* Added code for converting the headers of downloaded binaries on VMS + to indicate FIXED 512 record format. See the documentation in + userdefs.h, lynx.cfg and FIXED512.COM for more information. - FM +02-08-95 +* Fixed glitch in HTInit.c which mis-casted the default MIME type for + files with a .sh extension, causing the EXEC_SCRIPT function to be + dysfunctional. - FM +* I think I finally have Lynx showing "(p# of N)" properly in the title + lines (we'll see if perfection has really been achieved 8-). - FM +* Extended directory browsing on VMS to the -homepage specification, + if included on the command line, e.g., lynx -homepage=sys$login + will start up Lynx with the default startfile, but the 'm'ain menu + command will yield listings of the home directory. - FM +* Added -fileversions switch on VMS for including all versions of files + in directory browser listings (otherwise, only the highest version is + listed, with no version numbers displayed). - FM +* Modified LYEdit.c to use fopen(filename,"a") instead of access(filename,2) + to verify write access for editing files (checking "append" access appears + to be a more reliable way to do it across platforms/flavors). - FM +02-07-95 +* Implemented directory browsing for VMS. - FM +* Fixed printer command handling to actually prompt for and use a second + filename argument if two "%s" strings are in the command map. - FM +* Added anti-Unix-shell-spoofing code for all of the filename argument + handling. - FM +* Fixed glitch in getenv(DISPLAY) calls on VMS. +02-04-95 +* Fixed a glitch in BASE support. Should now work properly when both + standard and Lynx-specific hrefs are in the document. - FM +02-03-95 +* Added support for posting to newsgroups from Lynx on VMS via the + ANU-NEWS software. - FM +* Numerous href parsing enhancements. - FM +* Enhancements and bug fixes of news displays. - FM +* Enabled display of Linknames with angle brackets (as for news URLs) + in the showinfo page. - FM +* Ensured that a file URL which is really an ftp URL will yield an + "FTP is Disabled" statusline message when it's disabled. - FM +02-01-95 +* Defined out the LYK_VERSION code and made Control-V a dead key again, + since including the Lynx name and version strings in the showinfo ('=') + and 'o'ptions displays is adequate, and people on different platforms + or flavors associate Control-V with other functions. - FM +01-31-95 +* Beefed up the BASE support. - FM +* Made all WWWLib cover pages and menus HTTP/1.0 compliant (to ensure + resetting of any BASE tags) and gave them more pizzaz. - FM +* Trim terminal slashes in ftp paths if not the Welcome directory, so + we'll get "Up to" links. Terminal slashes in file paths still force + that directory to be treated as the Welcome directory. For example, + ftp://host/blah/foo/ will have an "Up to blah" link listed, but + file://host/blah/foo/ will treat /blah/foo/ as "Welcome" (both ftp + and file "Up to" links are blocked by -DNO_PARENT_DIR_REFERENCE). - FM +* The VMS SOCKETSHR_TCP support can't yet handle telnet, tn3270 or + rlogin URL's (Andy Harper is working on it; be patient 8-). Modified + HTTelnet.c to compile properly and behave rationally when such URL's + aren't supported. - FM +* Corrected doc files based on Larry Virden's (lvirden@cas.org) careful + (or is it carefull) proof-reading. Thanks Larry! - FM +* More type casts for ANSI C compliance. - FM +01-30-95 +* Added numerous type casts for ANSI C compliance. - FM +01-29-95 +* Prototyped HTHostName() for yesterday's mods in HTAccess.c. - FM +* Updated lynx.cfg. - FM +01-28-95 +* Added lynx name and version to the showinfo page and options menu. - FM +* Tweaked Danny's news proxying mods for selective no_proxy directives + with a port field (119) for news, and added equivalent code for wais + (port 210). - FM +* Updated the INSTALLATION file (I hope people read it 8-). - FM +* Hadn't included last night's typo fix in the archived fileset. - FM +01-27-95 +* Added Danny Mayer's (mayer@ljo.dec.com) mods for proper handling of + no_proxy directives for news (NNTPSERVER) hosts. - FM +* Worked in Ari Luotonen's (luotonen@dxcern.cern.ch) mods for sending + a "Pragma: no-cache" header for use by a proxy server in conjunction + with the RELOAD command. - FM +* Fixed to handle file URL's appropriately in conjunction with proxying + of ftp URL's. For file URL's on the local host, direct access is + attempted, with no ftp attempt if that fails, whether or not proxying + is in effect, and whether or not no_proxy directives have been set. + Both ftp URL's, and file URL's on a remote host, are sought via ftp + without a direct access attempt. File URL's for remote hosts are + converted to ftp URL's before submission to a proxy server, so no + special procedure need be implemented to induce the proxy server to + act on them (You shouldn't continue using file URL's when you intend + ftp, but Lynx will handle such URL's properly when encountered in + old documents that use file when ftp is intended.) - FM +* Fixed typo in yesterday's "psychotherapy". - FM +01-26-95 +* Escaping of ISINDEX queries needed more tweaks to work properly with + high value IsoLatin1 characters. - FM +* Applied psychotherapy to the schizophrenic behavior that was exhibited + when download, upload, print, history or showinfo commands were used + during displays of each other's menus or temporary files. - FM +* Enabled downloading of links from the history page. - FM +01-25-95 +* Added LYK_VERSION command (^V) for showing version of Lynx. - FM +* Include file fixes for TCPWARE. - FM +* Fixed bug in showinfo() which caused core dumps when invoked while + positioned on any form field which has a "linkname" but a NULL + "filename". - FM +* Fixed glitch in 'p'rint menu. - FM +01-24-95 +* Enabled SOCKSification for any Unix flavor via the SITE-LYDEFS, + SITE-DEFS and SOCKSLIB definitions in the top-level Makefile. Added + info in INSTALLATION on how to do it for VMS. Included notes that you + are better off building Lynx normally, and instead using a SOCKSified + proxy server to get through a firewall. - FM +* Added instructions in INSTALLATION for setting up proxy service. - FM +* Fixed multiple submit button handling to distinguish which button was + activated when they have the same name, and include only that button's + name/value pair in the submission. - FM +* Figured out how to apply all security and restrictions checks for + redirecting URLs returned by ISINDEX searches, and accordingly lifted + the bypasses for the previously insecure access types. - FM +* Added option to use Jerry Whelan's (guru@bradley.edu) BSDselect() for + SVR4 systems with the "type any key" problem. - FM +01-23-95 +* Fixed up escaping of queries in HTSearch(). - FM +* Updated the sample jumps files. - FM +* Worked in socksification mods from Reese Ferry (reesef@VNET.IBM.COM) - FM +* Enabled use of LOCALE for international characters with any Unix flavor + (not just sun) via a define in the top level Makefile. - FM +01-22-95 +* Updated the lynx.cfg configuration file. - FM +* Implemented BASE handling. - FM +01-21-95 +* Fixed -cfg switch handling so that the specified, alternate configuration + file properly is read instead of the default system file specified in + userdefs.h. - FM +* Made 'p'rint, 'd'ownload and 'u'pload menu lists single spaced. - FM +* Fixed HTFileFormat() in HTFile.c so that it properly processes the + suffix-to-MIME-type mappings when version numbers are in local file + URLs on VMS. We therefore no longer trim off the version number if + if was included, and Lynx will now access and process that version + rather than only the highest version. - FM +01-18-95 +* Makefile fixes for convex and linux. - FM +01-17-95 +* More Makefile fixes. - FM +01-14-95 +* Fixes for FreeBSD. - FM +01-12-95 +* Made the "ls -l" emulation in local directory listings a compilation + option (see the top level Makefile). - FM +* Made inclusion of "Up to" parent links in local directory listings a + compilation option (see top level Makefile). - FM +* Message fix for checkmail on Unix. - FM +* Fixes for SCO with gcc. - FM +01-11-95 +* Restored original hash table function in HTAnchor.c without (hopefully 8-) + reviving anchor deletion problems. - FM +* Fixed typo in HTAccess.c. - FM +* Added code in HTFile.c from Timothy Newsham (newsham@aloha.net) for + generating long style Unix listings (ls -l). - FM +01-10-95 +* Escape dashes in lynx.man. - FM +* Added NetBSD support from Bryan T. Vold (btv@wiley.HealthPartners.COM). - FM +* Made anchor searches in hash tables case-sensitive (so paths which + differ only in their case can be distinguished, as people using the + DIRED support kept requesting) without (hopefully 8-) reviving anchor + deletion problems. - FM +01-09-95 +* More Makefile and code fixes for building properly with various systems + and compilers. - FM +01-06-95 +* Numerous fixes for handling signals (e.g., SIGWINCH) received during + keystroke fetches, without (hopefully 8-) reviving the problem of + runaway CPU's on undetected terminal disconnects. - FM +* More Makefile and code fixes for building properly with various systems + and compilers. - FM +01-05-95 +* Changed define for syslog() logging to SYSLOG_REQUESTED_URLS and picked up + logging of ISINDEX search requests that don't go through getfile(). - FM +* More fixes for redirection returned via ISINDEX searches. - FM +* Fixed missing newline character at end of last .lynxrc entry. - FM +* More Makefile tweaks. - FM +* More additions in LYCurses.h for compilers which fail to check whether TRUE + and FALSE are already defined before defining them in curses.h. - FM +01-03-95 +* Fix for redirection returned via ISINDEX searches. - FM +12-29-94 +* Yet more top level Makefile tweaks. - FM +* Fix bcopy problem for UCX. - Martin Zinser (zinser@vscn.gsi.de) +* Fix ioctl() problem for UCX. - MZ +12-27-94 +* More top level Makefile tweaks. - FM +12-26-94 +* Added Lou Montulli's procedure for PURIFY to the top level Makefile. - FM +12-23-94 +* Added Lou Montulli's memory leak fixes. - FM +* Fixed HTLoadedDocumentTitle() call in LYGetFile.c. - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.8 BETA --- +12-22-94 +* The WFEB code as of 12-15-94 has been archived at UKans as lynx2-3-7, + so we'll make this lynx2-3-8 to avoid confusion. - FM +* Added bookmark_exec restriction for disallowing use of lynxexec URL's + in the user's bookmark file or converted Mosaic hotlist. - FM +* Enable any lynxexec URL in JUMPFILE if EXEC_LINKS has been defined. + This allows you to set both LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ON_BUT_NOT_REMOTE + to TRUE and a single TRUSTED_EXEC rule that will always fail (e.g., + TRUSTED_EXEC:none), so that *ONLY* the lynxexec URL's in the jumps + file will be acted upon. - FM +* Disallow lynxexec URL's in G)oto if no_shell is set or if + LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ON_BUT_NOT_REMOTE is TRUE. - FM +12-21-94 +* Include LYFLAGS in the BSDI_Makefile. - FM +* Numerous mods based on patches from David Trueman - FM: +* Changed SUN4 ifdef for implementing the "reverse clear screen hack" to + REVERSE_CLEAR_SCREEN_PROBLEM since not all sun4 systems experience this + problem. +* Changed a few messages to use key_for_func() instead of a hard-coded + key mapping. +* Allow control-C as well as control-G to abort or cancel on Unix (as + already on VMS). On VMS, control-C and control-Y evoke a "Do you really + want to quit?" prompt, and a 'n'o reply gets handled as if control-G + has been entered in the first place. On Unix, control-C is treated + simply as a synonym for control-G, and control-Y is not an interrupt + signal. This seems the best way to handle those control signals, based + on what VMSers versus Unixites would expect them to do. +* Added code to disallow the writing of files beginning with a dot if + NO_DOT_FILES is set TRUE in userdefs.h and/or lynx.cfg. +* Added possibility of logging URL access via syslog() on Unix (ifdef'd + with LOGGING). +* Improved and made more flexible the security for lynxexec URL's. The + default behaviour is the same as now, but source locations and the path + (Unix) or name (VMS) of programs to be executed can be restricted via + TRUSTED_EXEC rules in the lynx.cfg file. +* Convert ~ in lynxexec paths to $HOME on Unix. +* Several changes in DIRED support. Tidied and consolidated code. Changed + the way tags are freed (fixing a bug where they did not always get cleared + properly). Changed all programs to *_PATH defines. Changed the display + of tags so they work with numbered links. +* Added another restriction to disallow telnet port specifications in + G)oto URL's. +* A bit of special case code in jump handling. If key mapping is G, allow it + to be typed as "go target". +* Change strncmp in remap() to strcmp() (bug fix). +* Report offending bad option in main(). +* In mainloop(), make \r same as \t and \n. +* Combine LYK_REMOVE code with LYK_DEL_BOOKMARK so that they can share the + same key map. +* If show_cursor is true, position cursor 1 position before the link, which + makes it less likely that the link is obscured in defective terminal + programs +12-15-94 +* More fixes in LYno_attr_char_case_strstr() and LYno_attr_char_strstr() - FM +* People didn't like having to erase the default WHEREIS ('/') search string + when it wasn't what they wanted in a new document (though most didn't know + that it can be done easily via ^U), and Lynx doesn't have real editing via + LYgetstr() (just deletion from the end of the string), so I got rid of the + the editing offer. The previous search string is still buffered across + document fetches, and can be used across documents via NEXT ('n'). You + also can use WHEREIS without a search string entry to turn off highlighting + within the current document, and then NEXT to restore it. If control-G is + used instead of a blank string to cancel a WHEREIS command, it does not + turn off the highlighting. So everything everyone asked for is now + possible (once you figure out how to do it 8-). - FM +12-14-94 +* Oops! Fixes in tcp.h for MULTINET with DECC/VAX had left SOCKET_ERRNO + undefined for all the other VMS TCPIP packages. That's what I get for + working on this stuff too late at night. - FM +* Additional ANSI compliance fixes in HTTCP.c for builds with DECC/VAX and + non-MULTINET VMS TCPIP packages. - FM +12-13-94 +* Modified searches for strings within the currently displayed document + ('/', as opposed to 's' for ISINDEX searches) so that the highlighting of + the search string is not retained when the current document is changed, + and added recall buffering of the search string so that it's offered as + the default for editing or reuse on subsequent '/' commands. Also, we + now force redraws on invocations of such searches so that hits will be + highlighted even if they occur on the current page. Links with hits such + that they have embedded highlighting of the search strings will not have + the embedded highlighting restored when the cursor is moved onto and then + off of them (helps to distinguished whether it's intended or the due to + the search), but will be restored whenever the page is redrawn. All + embedded highlighting also is restored when the 'n'ext command is used to + repeat the search in the current document, even if the returned hits do not + cause a page change. Note that these searches first search only the links, + and position you on the first link with a hit occurring after the current + link. If there were no hits in the links, then the text is searched and + the first hit occurring after the current link is positioned at the top of + the page. They never did, and still do not, search both the link and text + portions of the document simultaneously. Also note that ISINDEX searches + never have and still do not yield highlighting of the query string(s) in + the returned document. +* Fixed LYno_attr_char_case_strstr() and LYno_attr_char_strstr() in + HTStrings.c so that they properly ignore any attribute characters in + the comparison string and return a pointer to the correct location + of a match with the target string. - FM +12-12-94 +* Modified FTP gateway to display 230- as well as 250- information/help + messages, and on non-Unix as well as Unix systems. - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.7 BETA --- +12-11-94 +* Further tweaked explanatory comments in the configuration and samples + files, and updated the instruction files. - FM +12-09-94 +* Modified PassesTest() in HTInit.c to avoid the overhead of system() calls + by using getenv() when test -n "$DISPLAY" and test -z "$DISPLAY" + commands are encountered in the mailcap file. Otherwise, needlessly + expensive system() calls potentially could be made for virtually every + viewer mapping in that file!. For Lynx, those two strings in the mailcap + file now are equivalent to the :XWINDOWS and :NON_XWINDOWS flags, + respectively, for VIEWER: assignments in lynx.cfg. - FM +* Also modified PassesTest() so that it simply treats test -n "LYNX_VERSION" + as success. Why spawn a system() command to see if Lynx is running, when + it obviously is!. However, that string can be included in the mailcap + file for assignments that should be restricted to Lynx if other software + also uses the file. - FM +* The above two mods make it unnecessary to actually use a "test" script for + differentially setting viewers in XWINDOWS versus NON_XWINDOWS environments, + so VMSers also can use the mailcap files for differential assignments of + viewers, without those DCL error messages about "test" which have been + mystifying so many people. However, yesterday's mods do make it possible + for VMSers to use a "test" script for checking other environment or system + features, and thereby setting viewer switches differentially, analogously + to the command line switches for Lynx itself. - FM +* Modified comments in samples/mailcap to indicate these enhancements. - FM +* Modified comments in userdefs.h to describe correctly what the Lynx code + does as of v2.3: Any SUFFIX or VIEWER mappings in lynx.cfg will be + overridden in src/HTInit.c if they also appear there. Then, any mappings + in mime.type or mailcap will override those from lynx.cfg and src/HTInit.c. + The XLOADIMAGE definition is used in src/HTIinit.c, and you can use + mailcap, but not lynx.cfg, to override it. - FM +* Modified comments in lynx.cfg and samples/lynx.cfg to indicate what Lynx + really does, and the use of mailcap files to do what lynx.cfg had claimed + it could do but doesn't. - FM +* Fully implemented multiple submit button support for both POST and GET + forms. - FM +* Added LYK_RESUBMIT keymap (with default binding to 'x' and 'X') for forcing + submissions of forms to servers (i.e., never use cache). LYK_ACTIVATE + (with default binding to right-arrow and RETURN) still fetches from cache + if available. Statusline help describes these commands when positioned + on a submit button. - FM +12-08-94 +* Fixed HText_submitForm() in GridText.c to handle submitting INPUT types + (e.g., type="image") which have name/value pairs. - FM +* Modified DCLspawn to recognize -1 on failure and 0 or 1 on success as + return or exit values of scripts, and report -1 or 0 as it's own return + value. If a "test" script is used on VMS in conjunction with .mailcap + for setting viewers, it should return -1 if the test fails and 0 or 1 if + it passes (the "test" script can be DCL or an exectutable, and should be + defined as a foreign command). If you don't have a "test" script, don't + include that instruction in .mailcap. - FM +* The tmpaddress pointer in do_www_search() of GridText.c needed to be + initialized to NULL. - FM +12-07-94 +* Made sufficiently ANSI compliant to build with DECC on VMS without using + the /stand=vaxc qualifier, and further modified so that Lynx will build + and run (extremely well 8-) with DECC/VAX. Whooh, that took some doing! + These mods are also desirable for builds on Unix. - FM +12-02-94 +* Fixed the query recall buffer in do_www_search() of GridText.c to restore + the +'s to spaces and unescape properly. - FM +* Include file and define fix ups, for SOCKETSHR/NETLIB support and convex + builds, in tcp.h, LYShowInfo.c and top level Makefile. - FM +11-27-94 +* Fixed bugs associated with failure to check the post_data element in + addition to the address element when making push/pop decisions for the + history stack, and when checking whether a requested document has been + loaded successfully. The address element is insufficient for documents + returned by POST'ed forms. - FM +* Check -trace switch earlier in LYMain.c so that trace messages associated + with setting up the Lynx configuration will actually be displayed. - GL +11-23-94 +* More fix ups for the SOCKETSHR/NETLIB support. Close to "all set" but needs + more field testing with the full range of TCPIP packages for VMS. - FM +* Added HP_TERMINAL define for the DIM workaround to the REVERSE problem with + HP terminals. If not defined, SNAKE builds will not make that substitution + (would be better to do this in a way that checks the terminal at run time, + but we'll hold off on that for now). - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.6 BETA --- +11-21-94 +* Replaced ucx$inetdef.h with socketshr_library:ioctl.h for the + SOCKETSHR_TCP builds. Note that the ioctl.h is not presently included + in the binary distribution of SOCKETSHR/NETLIB. You have to get it from + the sources distribution. - FM +11-18-94 +* Added Andy Harper's (A.Harper@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk) "first round" support for + SOCKETSHR/NETLIB (see SOCKETSHR.ANNOUNCE). Note that it is presently + including ucx$inetdef.h which is not provided with SOCKETSHR or NETLIB + source sets, and may not be available to non-UCX sites. We're checking + into how to deal with that. - FM +* Made recall buffering of shortcuts for the 'J'ump command a configuration + file option (in userdefs.h and/or lynx.cfg). - FM +* Added clearerr() before the GetChar() in LYStrings.c. - FM +* Made the optional novice help lines conform to the "standard default" + key bindings. Edit them appropriately in userdefs.h if you plan to use + other bindings with that feature. +* Added George Lindholm's (lindholm@ucs.ubc.ca) Makefile patch for making it + just a tad easier to set up local compile options. - FM +* Eliminated serial free() in LYSanctify() of LYGetFile.c. - FM +* Restricted all "hack to fix reverse clear screen problem" code to + SUN4 (had missed one 8-). - FM +11-15-94 +* Eliminated separate list and atexit deletions of redirecting anchors. - FM +* Added Rick Dyson's (Dyson@IowaSP.Physics.UIowa.EDU) updates of the + descrip.mms files. - FM +11-12-94 +* Worked in Malcolm MacArthur's (mcscs2mm@zippy.dct.ac.uk) mods for reading + a printer's page length from the configuration file and calculating the + correct number of pages for the statusline query on whether to continue + if the document is longer than 4 printer pages. Further modified that + code to use the current LYlines for the computation when the built in + "print to screen" option is selected. See the comments concerning + "PRINTER:" definitions in lynx.cfg for more information. - FM +* Fixed HTInetStatus() in HTTCP.c to use SOCKET_ERRNO instead of errno, + based on the platform/transport-specific definitions in tcp.h. Thanks + to Danny Mayer (mayer@ljo.dec.com) for tracking down this glitch. - FM +11-10-94 +* Added David Trueman's latest clever enhancement: The command line option + -homepage=URL separates the notion of a home page (or main screen) from + the start file. So, lynx -homepage=URL1 URL2 will start up with URL2 + but the MAIN_MENU key will take the user to URL1 rather than URL2. This + is useful for public accounts that start up with an information page or + form, that then leads the user to a URL for the actual home page. The + MAIN_MENU key can thereafter be used whenever the user wishes to return + to the actual home page. - FM +* Enlarged string buffer in LYEdit.c to handle large paths. - FM +* Made 'K'eymap title and descriptions easier to edit for alternate languages + (e.g., Dutch or Greek) as required by Dick Wesseling (but, alas, the editing + still has to be done in LYKeymap.c, because it's too much to move into + userdefs.h; someday Lynx will have real internationalization code 8-) - FM +* Added titles to tops of jumps files so that the nesting level will be reset + on reloads. - FM +11-09-94 +* More prototyping and include file fixes in LYJump.c and LYMainLoop.c - FM +11-08-94 +* Prototyping fix in LYJump.c. - FM +* Miscellaneous fixes in src/descrip.mms. - FM +* Hadn't included patch for latest LYUtils.c in lynx2-3-5.patches. - FM +11-07-94 +* At popular request (already 8-), changed the "Jump to:" query to work + exactly like the "goto:" query. The previous entry is recalled, a '?' + must be entered explicitly to fetch the shortcut list (with an instruction + about that added to the prompt), and a blank entry or Control-G returns + the user to the current document. - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.5 BETA --- +11-05-94 +* Numerous wonderful enhancements based on patches from David Trueman, and + extensions of those mods. Briefly: +* Implemented 'K'eymap command for showing all of the key bindings currently + in effect, with a description of their functions. This is faster and + more helpful than the online help's description of the default key + bindings. Must be uppercase 'K' if VI keys are ON, otherwise the command + is case-insensitive. Try it, you'll love it! - FM +* Implemented 'J'ump command for using "shortcut" names to access URL's in a + local "jumps.html" file that has a sorted DL list which maps each target + (shortcut) DT to it's full URL DD (see the sample jumps files added to + the distribution). The URL's could be local or remote resources, or + lynxexec or launch file URL's for system utilities (e.g., the shortcut + "news" could invoke the news reader, "mail" the mail utility, "swing" the + VMS File/Directory Management Utility, etc.). This feature is enabled by + defining JUMPFILE in userdefs.h or lynx.cfg, and can be disabled via at + run time via -restrictions=jump as a commandline switch. Must be uppercase + 'J' if VI keys are ON, otherwise the command is case-insensitive. Try it, + you'll love this too! - FM +* Added a CHECKMAIL symbol which if set TRUE in userdefs.h or lynx.cfg will + report the existence of unread mail at Lynx startup, and arrivals of new + mail, via statusline messages. VMSers can block unsoliticed system NEWMAIL + screen broadcasts ($ SET BROADCAST/NOMAIL) when using this feature. It + can be disabled at run time via the -restrictions=mail switch, which also + disables standard mail functions in Lynx, but still allows 'J'umps via a + "mail" shortcut to a lynxexec URL for a script which could perform security + functions before permitting or rejecting access to the mail utility. The + hackers will really love this! - FM +* Added ability to toggle the novice help line to show all of the principle + commands. - FM +* Miscelleanous bugs and memory leaks found and fixed in conjunction with + adding and enhancing the above features. - FM +* The code may need some tweaking to build and run properly on some flavors + of Unix (appears to be all set for VMS). - FM +11-01-94 +* Fixed bug if editor is dereferenced. - David Trueman (david@cs.dal.ca) +* Enable alternate boxing of popup windows via defines for BOXVERT and + BOXHORI in userdefs.h - Dick Wesseling (ftu@fi.ruu.nl) +* Check for LYCursesON before making any Curses calls in cleanup() - DW +10-31-94 +* Looks like the last of the problems deleting anchors has been solved + by Dick Wasseling, so the bypass is lifted again. - FM +* If CANT_EDIT_UNWRITABLE_FILES is defined on Unix, write access is + required to edit files (write and delete access are always required + on VMS). - Alex Whittaker (alex@biu.icnet.uk) +* Moved "Press RETURN ..." text to userdefs.h. - AW +10-28-94 +* Uncache documents or bookmark file before reloads (via Control-R or + 'r'emove command) in LYMainLoop.c. - FM +* Uncache showinfo display or print, download, option, etc, menus before + reloading those in GridText.c. - Dick Wesseling (ftu@fi.ruu.nl) +* Above two fixes still don't completely solve the anchor deletion problem, + so we're still bypassing. +* Enable iso entity translations inside TITLEs - DW +10-26-94 +* Problems when deleting anchors have been reported, apparently for + documents which have been (re)loaded with LYforce_no_cache. So, + we'll restore the bypass until that problem is tracked down. - FM +10-25-94 +* Added coded for disabling mail for -anonymous via CAN_ANONYMOUS_MAIL in + userdefs.h, and via -restrictions=mail (default is enabled). - FM +10-21-94 +* Added Danny Mayer's (mayer@ljo.dec.com) samples/lynx.com - FM +10-05-94 +* Modified tcp.h to deal with conflicting typedefing in the MultiNet + types.h and time.h versus those for DECC. - FM +* Define FANCY_CURSES for linux-ncurses. - FM +09-30-94 +* -restrictions help list in LYMain.c should indicate "option_save" (not + "options_save") for disabling the saving of options in .lynxrc. - FM +09-29-94 +Mods based on patches from George Lindholm (lindholm@ucs.ubc.ca) - FM: +* Fixed problem when IGNORE_CTRL_C is defined, that was created by the + fix for runaway processes on Unix when undetected terminal disconnects + occurred. +* Added options to disable rlogin and/or ftp access. +09-28-94 +* Use "hack to fix reverse clear screen problem" in GridText.c if SUN4 is + defined (still need clarification on the exact nature of the problem + to decide if this is the best way to handle it; it bothers me to have + this kind of hack in the code 8-) - FM +Mods based on patches from George Lindholm (lindholm@ucs.ubc.ca) - FM: +* Move the "quit" text to userdefs.h from LYMainLoop.c for easier + customization. +* Typo fix for buttons submit value in GridText.c +* Reenable SIGINT signal for SVR4 machines if control-c is to be ignored + when editing. +* Solaris fixes for LYCurses.h. +* Recognize pico as a special editor. +* Fix -restrictions help text. +* Fix -telnet and -news options so that they actually do something. +* Fix upload code so that you can have more than one uploader option, + and fix for freeing a static variable. +* Various prototype fixes. +* -editor command line option signals that the editor can't be changed. +* Added a SYSTEM_EDITOR option to lynx.cfg for a locked editor. +--- RELEASE of 2.3.4 BETA --- +09-27-94 +* Alas! I think I've tracked down and fixed all the bugs that were causing + ACCVIOs/CoreDumps if anchors were deleted/freed when freeing the cached + documents. So now we do delete/free them. This plugs a major memory + leak in Lynx (which we knew about, but heretofore had to live with). - FM +* Added Danny Mayer's (mayer@ljo.dec.com) fix so that MIME types are handled + case-insensitively. - FM +* Restored text/html (WWW_HTML) as the default MIME type when an HTTP/1.0 + server fails to send it in the headers. This happens because it's the + default in Mosaic and developers using that don't realize their server or + script code is failing to send it (other MIME types will be caught as an + error, and the code will be fixed by the developers). Garrett's change to + application/octet-stream (WWW_UNKNOWN) was technically correct. You can + change it back to that where indicated in HTMIME.c if you prefer that Lynx + be technically correct but functionally wrong when dealing with this + situation. - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.3 BETA --- +09-22-94 +* Finished up redirection handling. Will now handle serial redirections + across multiple sites (with an arbitrary limit of 10, to prevent the + possibilily of an infinite loop of circular redirections), works properly + with redirections via the VALUE fields of OPTION tags, and no longer alters + any anchor addresses, avoiding all the problems that caused in the hash + table. - FM +* Worked in Rick Mallett's (rmallett@ccs.carleton.ca) fix for runaway + processes on Unix when undetected terminal disconnects occur. - FM +* Added Eric Jon Rostetter's (ERIC@uoft02.utoledo.edu) code for proper + keyboard handling with DEC eightbit terminals. - FM +* Added David Greer's (david_greer@robelle.com) mods for curses on + HP terminals. - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.2 BETA --- +09-17-94 +* More fix ups of forms structure handling, freeing and redirecting. - FM +* Fixed problem with free's of startfile, thanks to Dick Wesseling + ftu@fi.ruu.nl - FM +09-14-94 +* More memory leak and redirection fix ups (still not perfect). - FM +* Various mods to speed up memory management with VAXC on VAXen (still + slow compared to DECC on AXPen). - FM +09-13-94 +* If an ISINDEX document is one returned by a previous search, the 's' + command puts up the query which returned it, for editing as a new query + (use Control-U to erase, Control-G to abort) Otherwise, no string is + offered in the prompt for a database query. If the previous query is + submitted without modification, a message to use Control-R to resubmit + the same query is display (so that the search will not be repeated + inadvertently). - FM +09-12-94 +* Fixed failure to load the popped menu properly when a gopher search was + selected and a NULL string, Control-G, or arrow key is entered to cancel + the prompt for a query. - FM +* Hit lists/documents returned by ISINDEX searches are now always displayed + at their tops. They no longer inherit, inappropriately, the page and link + numbers of the previous list/document. - FM +09-11-94 +* Fixed redirection handling so that the hash tables are updated and the + history stack works properly, including with forms that have VALUE + fields in OPTION tags that return Location: URL's for searches (e.g., + the CUSI forms at Nexor). Whew, that took some doing! - FM +09-05-94 +* Fixed up remaining problems with OPTION VALUE="foo" handling and the + associated popup window positioning and scrolling. - FM +* Fixed bugs and several inadequacies in the history structure and code + (still needs some redesigning to deal more effectively with all aspects + of documents returned by forms and/or redirection). - FM +* Now deals properly with anchors in a single document returned by + a form. - FM +* Command line file specs on VMS can now be any valid explicit, wildcarded, + partial, or relative VMS specification, and will be converted to a valid + file://localhost/ URL, so that partial or relative URL's within the file + also will be interpreted properly. - FM +* Now trims trailing white space and won't get tripped up by '=' characters + when reading configuration files. - FM +* Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements. - FM +* Tracked down and eliminated more memory leaks. - FM +--- RELEASE of 2.3.1 BETA --- +7-08-94 +* Correction handling of OPTION VALUE="" implemented. +* Miscellaneous bugs corrected. +6-17-94 +* Option to log memory leaks at exit by defining LY_FIND_LEAKS at compilation. +6-17-94 +* Check amount of allocated memory, rather than just number of documents + cached, before deciding to remove the oldest document (implemented for + VMS with VAXC, not yet for Unix or VMS with DECC). +6-16-94 +* VMS bookmark file version numbers are reset on additions of bookmarks. +6-16-94 +* Gopher URL's with /hGET%20/ are converted to http URL's, as in the UMN + Unix/VMS gopher+ client. +6-16-94 +* Added DIRECT_WAIS support for VMS +6-16-94 +* Added build support for VMS TCPWare TCP/IP +5-28-94 +* Increased nesting of HTML elements from 40 to 400. Hopefully this will limit + won't be encountered often. +5-28-94 +* Modified for handling of Telnet URLs with spaces/other characters in the + username. +5-26-94 +* Began terminating memory leaks with extreme predjudice. +5-24-94 +* WAIS searches will now work when they are of type "www/present" as opposed + to only viewing the source. +5-23-94 +* Added VMS CMU TCP/IP support, thanks to Andy Harper. +--- RELEASE of 2.3 (19-May-1994, see CHANGES2-3) --- |