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- > From: Eelco van Asperen <evas@cs.few.eur.nl>
- >
- > I've been working on a curses-version of the line mode browser
- > and I think the code works reasonably well. The modifications
- > I made to v1.1 have now been incorporated into v1.2. Most
- > changes are in the form of #ifdef CURSES ... #endif.
- > I've also added lots of checks where malloc ea. are used to
- > make sure that they return a non-NULL pointer.
-
- Great to have a curses full-screen browser! Something we has always throught ought
- to be done, but hadn't had the time. Send me the patches, and I'll insert them
- into our current code and into the next release.
-
- > Unfortunately, the PC version keeps crashing lately; I'm not sure
- > if the problem is the PC-NFS toolkit or the browser code.
- > The program hangs when one of the PC-NFS toolkit routines tries
-
- > to free a memory block; this could be caused by a corrupted memory
- > chain. This in turn can be caused by freeing some pointer that
- > was not malloc'ed. The code runs ok under Unix even when I add
- > the malloc-debugging library.
-
- Sounds like a PC-sepcific bug there... but you never know. We have found something
- weird with realloc() under aix but that looks like an aix bug.
-
- > Some other points;
- > - a lot of files (especially *.html and *.txt files) don't end
- > with a linefeed; the SCCS source code control system does not
- > like this. Perhaps this can be fixed in future releases ?
-
- I think this may be Edit on the NeXT which is happy to leave an uncompleted line on
- the end of a file. I'll have to look at it.
-
- > - could you make context diffs from the last to the current
- > release ? This would make it easier to see what has changed
- > and merge those changes with the ones I've made to my copy
- > of the last release.
-
- Assuming your patches are useful -- which they certainly have been up till now,
- we'll incorporate them into the release.
-
- > So, if you are interested in my patches, please let me now and I'll
- > send them.
-
- yes please!
-
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