On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:53:21AM -0000, Chris Thomas wrote: > Dear James > > I am in the throes of setting up a home page which I would like to be > accessible and found a reference to your Lynx browser at the RNIB site. > > I've downloaded lynx 2.8.4 P5 successsfully and got it running so that > it accesses the web and it is already very useful. > > However, I am having no luck accessing sites on my own PC (Windows 98) > using the instructions in the help document - lynx just does not seem > to be able to access my local page index.htm in its directory whereas > internet explorer, netscape and opera can. > > Can you or your collegues provide a computer moron a simple > instruction to try so that I can a) start lynx without accessing the > internet if need be and b)then simply type in my local file name to > load? I presume I need to modify the lynx.cfg file but definitely need > expert help. > > I would be exceedingly grateful! > Best wishes > Chris http://homepages.tesco.net/~Chris.Jrthomas/ > Dr Chris Thomas, Cambridge UK
Chris -- You should be able to do this in a DOS window: LYNX . --or-- LYNX C:\ The following is likely to work, but hard to type: LYNX file://localhost/c: No lynx.cfg modification required! /jim ------ <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/net/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm> <http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=%22web+home+for+jim+spath%22> Marvin the Paranoid Android says: It's no good just pressing that. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
