Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:24:46 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape (and others) Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.03.9908192207570.45854-100000@dakota.gate.net> In-Reply-To: <01a401beea88$06167720$817e03cb@2000>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Doug Young wrote: % Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:15:49 +1000 % From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> % To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG % Subject: Re: Netscape (and others) % % In response to Simon Mendosa % % From: Simon Mendoza <simon_v_mendoza@yahoo.com> % To: Kremlin Vostok <kremlin@primus.com.au>; FreeBSD Mailing List % <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> % Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 6:23 AM % % Dunno how you can call lynx "user friendly" ...... maybe it is to an expert % but sure isn't for newbies, which I understand is the user base of this % particular list. FreeBSD docs generally are heaps more intelligible to % newbies than any of that linux stuff, and a dedicated newbie mailing list is % the best idea yet, but from my point of view at least, advice as to what % application is user friendly or otherwise needs to be factual and relevant % to someone at newbie level. % % Where does one find info on configuring Lynx ...... there isn't anything at % the homepage, or anywhere else I can find for that matter. I posted that % question on several local mailing lists in Australia and after I got through % all the typical "its easy, just read the HOWTO" responses I have learned to % expect from "experts" .... I eventually found that in fact nobody had % managed to get lynx working at all, whether in *nix or windows. % % I'd like to use lynx .in both windows and *nix situations, but without any % proper info on how to get it working its no use whatsoever to me. The % problems I had .... and others too .... were "startfile not found" (even % though its where it should be and uncommented), "temp" file can't be opened" % (even though permissions are correct), and similar stuff to that. % Lynx is a time honored browser which has never failed me in a pinch! I've built that app long ago from source and it's never let me down. I can't see how an end user could possibly have such problems. I'm a busy man who does not have time for dicking around with loading java applets, frames, banners and time consuming images... henceforth the use of lynx! Any and all documentation in regards to installing and configuring lynx can be found right along side the source (see below). ABOUT-NLS cfg_defs.h intl/ CHANGES cfg_defs.sh* lynx* COPYHEADER cfg_edit.sh* lynx.cfg COPYING config.cache lynx.cfg_bak INSTALLATION config.guess* lynx.hlp LYHelp.h config.hin lynx.man LYHelp.hin config.log lynx_cfg.h LYMessages_en.h config.status* lynx_help/ MAKEFILE.W32 config.sub* makefile PROBLEMS configure* makefile.in README configure.in mkdirs.sh* VMSPrint.com descrip.mms po/ WWW/ docs/ samples/ aclocal.m4 fixed512.com src/ build-slang.com fixtext.sh* test/ build.com install.sh* userdefs.h Simple strait forward ascii files. How hard can that be? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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