Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:20:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Wayne Buttles <buttles@wsb.champlain.edu>
To: Hasan Karahasan <h.karahasan@pinneberg.netsurf.de>
Cc: lynx-dev@sig.net
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV lynx386 problem "alert: socket failed"


> Start lynx386 and follow 21 links from the net (not to a local file). 
> Now follow the 22th link. You should get the message "alert: socket
> failed" 

Great work!  I never realized there was a pattern.

Here is the fix:

in DJGPP\TCPLIB\TCPSYS\socket.c (around line 230'ish) change 

if (Socket[s]->type == SOCK_DGRAM)
  to
if ((Socket[s]->type == SOCK_DGRAM) || (Socket[s]->type == SOCK_STREAM))