On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Kiffin Gish wrote: > No, I do not think you understand. Please allow me to explain myself > better and elaborate some more. > > I was inspired by the DJ Delorie version of the Lynx Viewer at: > http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html > > I downloaded the latest version of Lynx, installed it on my site, and > compiled everything to create the executable. I coded by own version of > the lynxview.cgi script at: > http://www.gishteq.com/utl_tmode.html > > The idea being to inspire potential customers how important it is to > design your web site with this in mind (hoping in the end that they hire > me as a professional consultant, of course). > > What I do is via a CGI-script I run lynx to generate a dump file: > > ./lynx -cfg=./lynx.cfg -force_html -dump 'url' >results.txt > > And then I show the results by presenting the contents of this results > file. Just try it to see better what I mean. Everything is enclosed > within <pre>-tags to make it readable.
The "-source" option (rather than "-dump") extracts the html content of the page - that would leave hyperlinks intact. But that isn't what you want. You can suppress the references by adjusting the lynx.cfg, but for making a formatted output with active links, you'll have to modify GridText.c -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
