This is the problem with all the programs ported from Unix - no-one bothers to look at the documentation and see if it would make any sense to QL users. Guess that's why Linux is free but you pay so much to purchase a copy and get support...
Linux ports to QL systems will be a waste of time until either we all learn Linux or authors learn to make documentation make sense.
the line: 157 SETENV "www_home=http\homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/index.html"
is interesting - you're not telling me Lynx expects a web addres in this format rather than http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/index.html
which is the standard convention....
Well, that's the correct way to set up the home page according to Lynx!!! Local files (i.e. files on your computer) are worse, to set the above for a local file such as WIN1_TEST_FILE_HTML you'd need to unix-ify it a bit: /WIN1/test/file.html
Not very QDOS-friendly!
The actual page displayed is passed as a parameter to the EX command. And the web address is as you'd expect it to be. I have yet to get the help files working, as it gives a badly formed address error. So once I'm in Lynx all I can do is up or down a page, follow a link or quit.
The reason is simple. Path lengths. Use the defaults of program in win1_Lynx_ or win1_Lynx282_ and the help file path names are too long, the range from 37 to 45 characters in length. So you need to accept renames and overwriting and loss of a few files when unzipping inthe first place, then do some manual renaming and editing of the help files before you can access help files. A bit pathetic really.
Exactly. Time Swenson's distro of Lynx ALMOST works. The boot I sentI connected to my ISP from Windows, then ran the boot program for Lynx and all that happens is a brief flash of a Lynx screen and nothing, disappears without error or anything.
Dilwyn - if you get it figured out, then maybe you will be kind enough to sort the files out into a distribution - I think Lynx is under the open source, so we could actually provide this version on disk together with charges for support - how much Â50 ??!!
to the list works if you put in Marcel's correction and sort out the
configuration files to get help etc working. At the moment, attempts
to access help give me a 'Badly Formed Address' error due to the path name lengths described above. Presumably, as JRH is a uQLx user, uQLx allows longer filenames than QDOS or SMSQ/E does?
Hmm seeing as Dilwyn has mentioned running Lynx from within QPC2 - does Marcel want to actually let us poor mortals who do not have the beta version what v3.30 is going to contain - I guess the ability to access the internet :-)
I forgot it wasn't public knowledge yet. QPC2 v3.30 will have access to Windows TCP/IP much like how uQLx allows access to TCP/IP of the underlying Linux.
It's not a general TCP/IP system like soql because it uses Windows. So don't expect it to be ported to other QDOS/SMSQ E systems.
The QPC2 is with Beta testers now and should be on general release soon when Marcel is happy with it - he's gone through 3 or 4 test versions - you know he won't release it until he's happy, fair play!
I do hope someone will have the courage to write an article on setting up and using Lynx, the email apps from JRH and the FTP application otherwise we might find ourselves with only enough users to count on the fingers of one hand if my experience is anything to go by. Nothing wrong with Marcel's work, it's pretty transparent, it's the unix-ness of the application software which will flumox most users I guess. Marcel's work is pretty useless without software people can actually use!
If I suss out enough I might put a skeleton article on getting it going here and leave others who understand it better to flesh it out a bit and take it further.
-- Dilwyn Jones
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