From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jody Subject: Lynx port for ELKS underway! Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:08:26 -0400 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <414E65CA.1080807@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux-8086 Greetings to all. I am not an experienced C programmer. I have no practice writing my own code. However, I am learning a lot in the process of cleaning up a copy of the Lynx2-2 package so that it will be easier to port, if porting Lynx is truly possible (hey, if you whack out all the crap you don't need, it looks like Lynx gets a LOT smaller!). First of all, this message is intended primarily to announce a few things. A. I am working on cleaning Lynx up for porting to compile with bcc. B. I don't know how to do it but I'll figure it out C. Help would be appreciated if available, particularly with .h file substitution (netdb.h, etc) D. ELKS is very much alive! The current phase I call the "idiot phase" because even a C-inept idiot like me can do it. I am cleaning out the compatibility code and commentary that allows compiling on such systems as AIX, NeXT, Ultrix, and SCO (cough, heretics, cough!), and VMS(!). As of this moment (Sept. 20, 2004, 12:52 AM EDT) I have already cut out 368317 bytes of data from the source, and considering the original source is 1496674 bytes, that's a lot of garbage gone (24.6% to be exact, almost 1/4 of the ENTIRE code base for Lynx2-2!!!!) Once I finish wiping out code for things like TN3270, newsgroups, and telnet/rlogin protocols (leaving FTP and HTTP only) we should have something more useful to play with. At that point, I will make the cleaned code available in a tarball somewhere for all to pick at, because in all honesty I would love to be the hero that ports Lynx to ELKS but I don't have enough knowledge to do it all alone. I know that all of you would LOVE to have "Lynx86" and I will do my best to achieve that, or at least give it a hefty push. Where the heck is netdb.h? Best wishes to all, --- Jody ---