>From Tony Butka:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:27:04 -0500, Neil T. wrote:
> LINKS. I must of
>got rid of it cuz I didn't see it on the HD, so the other day I down loaded
>it and logged on but it does not browse....everything is set right, I am s
Hi Neil -
Lynx is very fussy about paths. I know that under OS/2, I had a heck of a time
getting it
to work until I put the binaries in a \usr\local directory. If I remember right, the
other thing
you have to do is set a home page in your autoexec or config file so Lynx knows what
to look for when it launches.
Hope this helps,
Tony Butka
(end of quote, and lines already go past my 80th column, hence my reluctance to
add > or otherwise indent)
Tony,
You're jumping from Links to Lynx. They are two different text-mode browsers,
apparently pronounced alike. Confusing, there is also a Links virtual golf
game.
I downloaded the latest Lynx for OS/2 from Hobbes and successfully ran it in
F:\lynx28 directory under OS/2 Warp 4. I downloaded a later Lynx somewhere else
and couldn't get it to start at all, it crashed on takeoff. I also downloaded
Links for OS/2 but couldn't get that to run. DOS Lynx386 from
http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ is a more recent version, with https support.
I notice the line in your headers,
X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2030 for OS/2 Warp 4.05
Feb 20, 2030 is a strange date for now, not the first strange date I've noticed
with PMMail. Or is that something other than a date?
How does PMMail decide how long the lines should be? Your line lengths are
exactly as I quoted, nothing added or removed. Screen I currently work with
has 80-character width. I find it easier to read paragraphs of one superlong
line than when broken into lines > 80 characters long.
Long URLs are best kept on one line, to facilitate copy-and-paste, where
computer readability is more important than easy human readability.
