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Lynx PROBLEMS file.
Ideally you would never have to read this, but inevitably problems
do arise. As implementation and installation problems become known
they will be outlined in this file.
Control-Z on Unix can cause aberrant behavior. If you encounter
problems, use -restrictions=suspend to disable it, and only '!'
for escapes to shell (on VMS control-Z is unconditional 'Q'uit,
with no attempt to suspend the Lynx process only temporarily).
Screen resizing can be a bit funny. If you resize the screen,
documents that have been cached will be out of whack. Any further
documents will look fine. This is a curses program anyway, so
resizeable terminals are not that common. On some systems
(i.e. HP/UX) terminal resizing does not work at all.
You can reload documents to the current window size with CTRL-R
The Sun `shelltool' and `cmdtool' terminals are stupid by default.
In order to get bold text to appear differently than inverse video,
the user should put this line in ~/.Xdefaults:
Term*boldStyle: Offset_X
From the `shelltool' man page, it seems that an analogous line
in ~/.defaults
/Tty/Bold_style "Offset_X"
ought to work just as well, but I you may not get the desired
behavior until you modify your .Xdefaults file (and run `xrdb
~/.Xdefaults'). Note also that there are other supported values
for the boldStyle resource/Bold_style default, all of which begin
with "Offset_". (helpful hint from kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com)
Dirctory browsing has been implemented for VMS, but there are no
plans to port additional DIRED support, because Lynx must handle files
as streams, and this precludes "serious" Directory/File Management on
VMS. Use a jumps file link to C SWING (sources or executables are
available from ftp://narnia.memst.edu).
When one switches between K)eypad "Numbers act as arrows" versus
"Links are numbered" in the 'o'ptions menu, the change is not
implemented until the next loading, RELOAD, or RESUBMIT of a document
(so do a RELOAD or RESUBMIT on return to the current document, if
necessary) and if the switch is done when the current document is a
DIRED menu in which links have been tagged, the tagging can be trashed
(so don't switch at such times 8-).
When "Links are numbered" is on, if a line is split on an anchor (to
obey right margin restrictions), and there is no space in the bolded
string such that the entire "[#]string" must be moved down, the "[#]"
becomes bolded, instead on only "string".
Telnet, tn3270 and rlogin URL's are not yet supported for Lynx built
on VMS with SOCKETSHR_TCP or CMU_TCP Andy Harper (see SOCKETSHR.announce
or CMU.announce) is working on it.
When news articles are being parsed for embedded references to other
articles, which are encased in angle brackets, any email addresses
that are encased in angle brackets will be misinterpretted as article
references. They have identical format, i.e., <foo@host>, and though
a human brain can figure out which they are based on context, Lynx is
not as smart and always assumes that they are article references.
Lynx can go into a tight loop on VMS, eating up CPU, when users are
connected via modem or terminal server and abruptly disconnect.
Lynx treats CRLF or LF as a word space when rendering HTML (or as a
newline in PRE formatted sections), but doesn't do that for CR alone.
The Mosaic v2.5 hostlist uses HTML similar to that of Lynx's bookmark
file, but with </UL></HTML> at the bottom, such that it is not fully
compatible with Lynx's file. If you try to use the Mosaic file as if
it were a Lynx bookmark file, the </UL></HTML> will not be taken into
account and new links will be added below rather than above those end
tags. Instead, add a link to the Mosaic file in your Lynx file, and
to the Lynx file in your Mosaic file, so that you can access both files
with both clients.