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!
No its not - but then it is free so the author is not going to offer support....
That's why we should offer it on a disk or whatever and charge for the support side - that seems to be the accepted norm for this sort of software.
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.
Even if you use just win1_ as the extract path you get lots of filename length problems....
The best idea would be to split the distribution into a runtime version which can be unzipped on a QL and the sources and other stuff that is not necessary, but could be read on a PC or Unix box. Not looked at the licence, but it should allow this, so long as the sources are still seen to be distributed with the program.
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Exactly. Time Swenson's distro of Lynx ALMOST works. The boot I sent
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?
Should be able to work out how to get the help into a format which can fit within a QL directory structure.
I will look at this...
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