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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:45:06 +0530 (IST)
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        "Brian K . Walters" <bkwalters@lucent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lynx forbidden
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004021342380.2832-100000@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004021312520.2790-100000@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in>

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> > > The lynx port is marked forbidden due to security problems.
> > > 
> > > There is no misunderstanding.
> > > 
> > > If you want to open yourself (and your users) up to buffer overflows in
> > > the code, you are more than welcome.

> Try w3m -- /usr/ports/www/w3m
> 
> If you must use lynx, you can probably compile it easily enough
> without the help of the ports.

Or rather, you can comment out the FORBIDDEN line in the
port makefile. Sorry about that -- I missed the earlier mails. 
But I'd recommend w3m. 



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