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- Lynx README file
-
- Lynx Version 2.8 is the latest "official" release. This release is based on
- the lynx2.7.1ac-0.118 development code set, and includes bug fixes through
- March 10, 1998. See the CHANGES2.8 file in the docs subdirectory for a
- complete record of all changes and bug fixes in this release. New releases
- are announced on the lynx-dev mailing list (see below).
-
-
- WHAT IS LYNX?
-
- Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running
- cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100
- terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other
- character-cell display. It will display Hypertext Markup Language
- (HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as
- well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp, wais, nntp,
- finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to
- telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts. Current versions of Lynx run on
- Unix, VMS, Windows95/NT, 386DOS and OS/2 EMX.
-
- Lynx can be used to access information on the WWW, or to establish
- information systems intended primarily for local access. Lynx has been
- used to build several Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS). Lynx can
- also be used to build systems isolated within a single LAN.
-
- Links to the current sources and support materials for Lynx are
- maintained at:
- "Lynx links"
- <URL:http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html>
- and at the Lynx homepage:
- "Lynx Information"
- <URL:http://lynx.browser.org/>.
- View these pages for information about Lynx, including new updates.
-
- Lynx is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) without
- restrictions on usage or redistribution. The Lynx copyright statement,
- "COPYHEADER", and GNU GPL, "COPYING", are included in the top-level
- directory of the distribution. Lynx is supported by the Lynx user
- community, an entirely volunteer (and unofficial) organization.
-
- Certain portions of the Lynx source distribution were originally
- created by CERN and have been modified during the development of
- Lynx. See WWW/Copyright.txt for copyright info regarding CERN
- products used in Lynx.
-
- YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE
-
- We believe Lynx works properly for the Year 2000 issues, since it does
- not store dates in 2-digit form. Since it must communicate with a wide
- range of web servers, it interprets dates in a variety of formats. In
- particular, if Lynx receives a date with a 2-digit year, it assumes that
- values less than 70 are in the range 2000-2069.
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- A users guide is included in this distribution along with a man page
- for Unix systems and a help file for VMS systems. All documentation is
- contained in the top directory and the docs, samples and lynx_help
- subdirectories.
-
- While running Lynx, type 'h', 'H', or '?' to invoke the help menu
- system. From the help menu you may access several useful documents
- pertaining to Lynx and the World Wide Web. The most important of
- these is the Lynx Users Guide. By default, Lynx will use the Lynx
- Enhanced Pages, which includes http links for help and FAQs concerning
- Lynx. It is recommended that you install your own help menu system at
- your site in order to lessen the load on http servers. This also will
- allow you to customize the help menu system for your site and greatly
- speed up access for those using Lynx over a slow connection.
-
- For Unix and related systems which support the autoconf configure script,
- the help menu system is installed by the "make install-help" command.
-
- For other systems (such as VMS), copy COPYHEADER and COPYING into the
- lynx_help/ subdirectory. Then copy the lynx_help subdirectory to a public
- place on your system, or into your $HOME directory if you are a single
- user. Finally, edit the lynx.cfg file so that the HELPFILE line is
- defined as follows:
-
- HELPFILE:file://localhost/[public_path]/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
-
- where [public_path] is the absolute path to the lynx_help directory.
- Customizing the help menu system is just a matter of editing a set of
- HTML files. Additional information about installing and customizing
- the help file set is available at <URL:http://www.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp/
- lynxdev/README.help>.
-
- INSTALLING LYNX
-
- To install Lynx, follow the steps in the INSTALLATION file, which is
- located in the top directory of the source distribution.
-
- PROBLEMS
-
- If you experience problems configuring, compiling or installing Lynx,
- please read Section VI. "General installation instructions" in the
- INSTALLATION file. Instructions are given there for reporting your
- problem to the "lynx-dev" mailing list, which is frequented by experienced
- Lynx users.
-
- LYNX-DEV MAILING LIST
-
- To subscribe to lynx-dev, send email to majordomo@sig.net with only the
- following message in the body:
-
- SUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV address
-
- where inclusion of your email address is optional if it can be obtained,
- correctly, from the mail headers of your subscription request.
-
- If you wish to unsubscribe from lynx-dev, send email to majordomo@sig.net
- with only the following message in the body:
-
- UNSUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV address
-
- where inclusion of your email address is optional if it can be obtained,
- correctly, from the mail headers of your request.
-
- Also, to get a list of useful majordomo commands, send email to
- majordomo@sig.net with the following command:
- ^^^^^^^^^
- HELP
-
- PLEASE!!! do not send commands to the lynx-dev mailing list itself.
-
- Any messages you wish to post should be sent to lynx-dev@sig.net.
- PLEASE use the lynx-dev list, NOT private email to the developers,
- for questions or discussion about Lynx, or contributions of patches.
- Patches should use the context diff format (diff -c).
-
- You need not be subscribed to the lynx-dev list in order to post. If
- you post without subscribing, though, you should read replies to your
- questions or comments in the archive since more often than not nobody
- will send a carbon copy to you. View the archives at:
-
- "lynx-dev Mailing list archives"
- <URL:http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/>
-