On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 23:05 -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: > Patch below turns off the following ancient protocols built into lynx: > bibp, finger, gopher, and news. > > For some urls, lynx will invoke an external command. Turn off telnet, > rlogin and tn3270 urls by defining them to false(1) as documented in the > lynx manual.
Gopher and NNTP are actually still being used (the former a bit sparsely, but there are a few servers here and there). The rest I don't mind seeing disappear (we don't ship the telnet and rlogin programs anymore AFAIK, I've never heard of bibp, and we have a finger program as an alternative to the functionality in lynx). > Finally, turn off the file editor which can be accessed with "g.<enter>" > using the --disable-dired switch. I don't see a good reason to get rid of this. What is the rationale? -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com>
