Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Your local machine if you have one. Of course if you're at a dreamhost terminal that idea will not work. On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:38:47 From: Karen Lewellen Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
I understand. that is why I am making an effort to be so specific. From what I have come to understand, what makes a local machine local is that you have done the installation, managed the configuration, and at least to some degree, determined its content. Both shellworld and Dreamhost use

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Hart Larry
Well Karen, I think a couple of us are comparing what we see on our local machines with whats on Shellworld-and-others. Hart ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
whose local machine? On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote: Another possibility, a keyboard macro on local machine aliased so when you go on dreamhost that has your links command line ready to output when you hit the defined macro key. This way dreamhost has no possible cause for

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another possibility, a keyboard macro on local machine aliased so when you go on dreamhost that has your links command line ready to output when you hit the defined macro key. This way dreamhost has no possible cause for complaint and you get a little convenience. On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
The links are numbered feature works just fine in the edition of elinks we have on shellworld...for which I am thankful. The Ubuntu shell dreamhost provides to its clients does not have elinks a all. Kare On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote: That save html options also does nothing

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
A small shell script with that startup option to run links ought to help if the admins don't freak out. On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:00:31 From: Karen Lewellen Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
That save html options also does nothing and is suspicious in its placement too. Why is it in the main view menu? This package with respect to this form of accessibility is broken on panix.com and my hard drive. Something else suspicious, you're not told what keys you can hit inside menus

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Larry, Dreamhost is not shellworld, and I use no local machine. besides the issue is resolved. My efforts trying the view menu created a problem, I am disinclined to experiment with dreamhost more than needful smiles. On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Hart Larry wrote: Hi Karen-and-All: You probably

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
I doubt very seriously if that will work at all. Dreamhost does not fully construct their shell in that fashion. In fact if i was to base the way Ubuntu shells structures function using my dreamhost experiences...I would never touch this at all. fortunately shellworld does a better job. Still

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Hart Larry
Hi Karen-and-All: You probably could type locate html.cfg on Shellworld, as well as my local machine, its in /home/chime, but local machine has another entry in texlive Hart ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Chase
On June 29, 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I did look for the html.cfg file. > However dreamhost must put this somewhere else because I could not > find a file with that name. If, after setting the option, you didn't then go back to the View menu and choose to save the HTML options, that file may

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Tim, Thanks for this. here is how I solved the problem. Jude is correct that changing the option in the menu does not work, although it might if you make the change then choose the save html options , I am not sure. Invoking the option as you provided does indeed turn on the feature,

brltty and dracut

2016-06-29 Thread John G Heim
Has anyone gotten brltty to insert itself into the initrd on debian jessie? I have only a virtual machine to try this on but it looks to me as if debian switched from initramfs-tools to dracut to build the initrd and therefore, brltty can no longer insert itself into the initrd. I happen to be

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
yes it is. On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Mark Peveto wrote: Now there's one I haven't seen in a while. shellworld.net. A while back, they were based in Mississippi. Are they still? Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from sonar using alpine 2.20.13 On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Chase
On June 29, 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote: > can anyone tell me swiftly where to find the option? You can invoke it with links -html-numbered-links 1 or by using the menu: View -> Html Options -> "Links are numbered" or by editing ~/.links2/html.cfg and adding/editing the following line:

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread John J. Boyer
Hi John, Your guesses are correct. It would be nice if the new drive could have an image of the old one, so it would work immediately. i don't know if the errors are due to defects in the disk platters or to problems with the controller. The machine is behaving normally now, but every few days

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Mark Peveto
Now there's one I haven't seen in a while. shellworld.net. A while back, they were based in Mississippi. Are they still? Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from sonar using alpine 2.20.13 On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > I am not talking about l y n x, I

numbered lines in links

2016-06-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here's what I had to do. You should first know the menu for adjusting things in links gotten to by alt-v then arrow down to html options and hit enter then arrow down to links are numbered does not work. I could not find any way to get an x to the left of links are numbered. However, there

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread Mark Peveto
Not all that far from you as places go. In Iowa. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from sonar using alpine 2.20.13 On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, John G Heim wrote: > I happen to be in Madison and I've already offered to upgrade John's machine > for him. But there is a really, really

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread Janina Sajka
Awesome, I think Mr. Boyer is a very lucky guy! John G Heim writes: > I happen to be in Madison and I've already offered to upgrade John's machine > for him. But there is a really, really good computer repair shop in Madison > that does linux. It's called Madison Computer Works. I've been doing

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread Janina Sajka
I agree. If he needs this level of support, you want actually a fair amount of Linux knowledge, enough to correctly setup brltty to come up by default. However, the machine hardware design/implementation and the Linux specific assistance could be two shops. Or, heck, the Linux job could be just

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread John G Heim
I happen to be in Madison and I've already offered to upgrade John's machine for him. But there is a really, really good computer repair shop in Madison that does linux. It's called Madison Computer Works. I've been doing business with them since the mid-90s even before I knew anything about

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread John G Heim
I am guessing John's problem would be with 2 things. First, he'd want linux with braille installed on the new hard drive. Second, he'd want his files copied from the old hard drive. Both of those things would take some knowledge of linux. Maybe not a lot, but some. On 06/29/2016 09:37 AM,

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
First hit o to open options. Next hit /save and then hit enter twice. Next hit /numbered and hit enter twice next hit /accept and hit enter twice. You're using the lynx search option in this case to do all of those searches in the options pages and it works just fine. On Wed, 29 Jun 2016,

Re: turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
I am sorry, I should have been more specific. I am not speaking of lynx as in the cat, but links as in links used in a chain, the slightly more java script friendly browser.\Karen On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Janina Sajka wrote: When in Lynx ... o to go to options /links to search for the word

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread Janina Sajka
Hi, John: I agree with your preference for taking your machine to a Linux shop. However, it's probably not really necessary. Unless you're also asking them to install software, any competent shop that builds machines to customer requirements should be able to explore and help with upgrading your

Re: Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread Mark Peveto
Hi John, I don't think you'd need a linux shop specifically, just a good computer store that can get you the kind of drive and such. Check with best buy if you've got one close...they can probably get you headed in the right direction. Have a good one. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number

Looking for a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin

2016-06-29 Thread John J. Boyer
My Linux machine needs a new disk drive and a general overhaul. Does anyone know of a good Linux shop in Madison, Wisconsin? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit

turning on the links are numbered feature in links?

2016-06-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, subject line says it all. while shellworld has this turned on, the work Linux shell I use from dreamhost does not. can anyone tell me swiftly where to find the option? Thanks, Karen ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com