Dilwyn Jones writes: > I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
Poor old Dilwyn. My commiserations (in advance) for 2005. I agree with you that for us poor QLers Lynx is a malevolent and misogynistic piece of software. I also agree with Marcel (as he says further down the line) that it is better than no software - but only just: If your serotonin levels are high Lynx (and other *X-derived software) is fine. If normal to low, no software is probably better. > It starts off overwriting its own files as you unzip them because the > path names are stored too long. Classic example of an author supplying > a problem for you to use. All well and good if you are prepared to > manually rename the directories, which I am not prepared to do. Seems > the minimum files you need aren't affected, so can be gathered into > one directory to run it. Marcel: Presumably, there is no 36 character limit on www paths under the TCP etc devices? So couldnt the DOS device (easily) be made to work the same under TCP? Eg: file://localhost/dos2/ql/lynx/help/bla/bla/bla/bla/main.html Thataway the lynx distribution could be stored on the DOS device (except the executables) and run from there without major alterations to the distribution. Just a late night "thought". <> With a TCP-enabled QPC many "ordinary" QLers (does this species exist?) may wish to try out Lynx. Perhaps some *X speaker would like produce a simplified binary distribution with all non-essential and barbarian junk excised? A pretty Qdos help file would be useful too. Of course, Lynx will only be a stopgap until native applications flood the scene ;) Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
