[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#699068: Fwd: lynx: Cannot Type a Page-Number more than

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: tags 699068 = fixed-upstream

On 2015-04-06 Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey at his.com>
> | | From: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey at his.com>
> | | | From: "Thorsten Glaser" <tg at mirbsd.de>

> | | | Dallas E. Legan dixit:
> | | | 
> | | | >To reproduce this:
> | | | 
> | | | Thanks, that is indeed… weird.
> | | | 
> | | | >I've done some checking on various machines I have accounts on:
> | | | 
> | | |    MirBSD-current/i386 machine
> | | | 	Lynx Version 2.8.8dev.16-MirOS-0AB5.1
> | | | 	limit 4 chars
> | | | 
> | | |   Debian unstable/i386 machine
> | | | 	Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.1 (12 Mar 2014)
> | | | 	limit 4 chars
> | | | 
> | | |   Debian unstable/amd64 machine
> | | | 	same version as above
> | | | 	limit 8 chars
> | | | 
> | | | So, WTF? Seems to be related to sizeof(pointer).
[...] 
> | agreed - I see that in src/LYGetFile.c, follow_link_number.
> | I'll add this to the po-files updates (after checking the one
> | which there was some concern that it was not working correctly).

> fwiw, there's a patch including this fix in

>     ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.9dev.4b.patch.gz

> (there was some email comment about a problem with one of the translations - when
> I have some time late this week, I'll put out dev.5)

Great. I can confirm that the issue is fixed in dev.4b. (on ix86).

thanks, cu Andreas

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