Lynx for Win XP

[Nico Schuyt]

My Lynx browser (from http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm) doesn't
work (anymore?) in Win XP.
I downloaded the 2.8.2rel.1 (old stable) from
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm, unzipped to c:\lynx and changed
the lynx.bat:
@echo OFF
set home=c:\lynx
set temp=c:\tmp
set lynx_cfg=c:\lynx\lynx.cfg
lynx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

Result: it starts up normally but after "Go" to an URL nothing is shown.
Anyone a suggestion?
Thanks,
Nico

 

[m]

My Lynx browser (from http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm) doesn't
work (anymore?) in Win XP.
I downloaded the 2.8.2rel.1 (old stable) from
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm, unzipped to c:\lynx and changed
the lynx.bat:
@ECHO OFF
set home=c:\lynx
set temp=c:\tmp
set lynx_cfg=c:\lynx\lynx.cfg
lynx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

....can be used for testing until you get it going.
I browse with it under Linux sometimes, but found it
more bother than the pain to to get it running under
XP.

 

[Nico Schuyt]

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
...can be used for testing until you get it going.
I browse with it under Linux sometimes, but found it
more bother than the pain to to get it running under
XP.

OK, I'll use the viewer
Nico

 

[Whitecrest]

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

Just checked whitecrest with it. And I loved what I saw. It looked
EXACTLY as I wanted it to in Lynx. (seriously)

 

[Nico Schuyt]

m wrote

Just checked whitecrest with it. And I loved what I saw. It looked
EXACTLY as I wanted ..

Even better than in a high tech browser
Nico

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Just checked whitecrest with it. And I loved what I saw. It looked
EXACTLY as I wanted it to in Lynx. (seriously)

Is the money of Lynx users somehow tainted?

 

[Steve Pugh]

Just checked whitecrest with it. And I loved what I saw. It looked
EXACTLY as I wanted it to in Lynx. (seriously)

It says "Sorry, I can not present the materials on this site correctly
with out the use of frames, javascript and Flash. You must use these
if you are to expirience the site. Thank
you."

Ignoring the spelling error, this is what you want google to index?
Google for "expirience the site" and "Whitecrest Studios " and see
which one returns your site.

Why mention Flash? I can't find any Flash on your site.

And if you used a normal link with the target attribute (valid as
you're using a transitional DTD) then the site would work just fine
(work differently, but still work) in Lynx, or indeed any browser with
no support for iframes and/or JS.

I guess that you're just trying to be difficult.

Steve

 

[Whitecrest]

Is the money of Lynx users somehow tainted?

Nope, but they can't watch flash presentation can they. and that's want
I want people to see.

 

[Whitecrest]

It says "Sorry, I can not present the materials on this site correctly
with out the use of frames, javascript and Flash. You must use these
if you are to expirience the site. Thank
you."

this is what you want google to index?

No one will ever search for it in Google. So that is moot.

Why mention Flash? I can't find any Flash on your site.

It's not there yet. Use to be, but I am moving it to another location.

And if you used a normal link with the target attribute (valid as
you're using a transitional DTD) then the site would work just fine
(work differently, but still work) in Lynx, or indeed any browser with
no support for iframes and/or JS.

Nope, it is working exactly as I want it to.

I guess that you're just trying to be difficult.

Different, never difficult.

 

[Whitecrest]

I couldn't say, since the alternative evil empire doesn't have a plugin
for my OS, have they, but I do view images when browsing the web with
lynx, so I suspect that I could watch flash movies as well if there was
a plugin, couldn't I?

You are free to watch it, change browsers. Pretty simple concept. If
you Can't change browsers for one reason or another,then you are SOL.
when it comes to flash. Your choice.

 

[Eric B. Bednarz]

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help a lot. Thanks.

Nope, but they can't watch flash presentation can they.

I couldn't say, since the alternative evil empire doesn't have a plugin
for my OS, have they, but I do view images when browsing the web with
lynx, so I suspect that I could watch flash movies as well if there was
a plugin, couldn't I?

 

[picayunish]

Nico Schuyt wrote in news:[email protected]:

My Lynx browser (from http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm) doesn't
work (anymore?) in Win XP.
I downloaded the 2.8.2rel.1 (old stable) from
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm, unzipped to c:\lynx and
changed the lynx.bat:
@ECHO OFF
set home=c:\lynx
set temp=c:\tmp
set lynx_cfg=c:\lynx\lynx.cfg
lynx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

Result: it starts up normally but after "Go" to an URL nothing is shown.
Anyone a suggestion?

Try to use the .exe instead of the .bat
I have no problems with 2.8.3.

 

[Nico Schuyt]

Nico Schuyt wrote

Try to use the .exe instead of the .bat
I have no problems with 2.8.3.

That's where I started Got a message like "document not found"
New trial: Removed everything, downlaoded and installed again and
experimented with the properties of the shortcut. Finally it works again.
Sometimes I hate that computer.
Nico

 

[picayunish]

Nico Schuyt wrote in news:[email protected]:

That's where I started Got a message like "document not found"
New trial: Removed everything, downlaoded and installed again and
experimented with the properties of the shortcut. Finally it works again.

Oops. I ment 2.8.4pre5

Sometimes I hate that computer.

But I love the DVD-Recordables for computers, especially when the are
defect.

 

[Nico Schuyt]

But I love the DVD-Recordables for computers, especially when the are
defect.

At your age should feel passion for other things in life
Nico

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Sometimes I hate that computer.

No, you hate the OS on that computer. Install Debian and everything will
be spiffy.

 

[Nico Schuyt]

Nico Schuyt wrote:

No, you hate the OS on that computer. Install Debian and everything
will be spiffy.

In principle you are right. Problem is that about everybody uses Win as OS.
Result will be that I still have to solve Win-problems for my customers (and
linux ones for myself
Cheers, Nico

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I couldn't say, since the alternative evil empire doesn't have a plugin
for my OS,

From your headers:
| User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

So I assume you're using Linux.

Flash 6 plugin for Linux:

http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html

Go get!

Won't work with Lynx though. It's a Netscape-style plugin (also supported
in Opera, Mozilla, etc) without a standalone executable.

 

[picayunish]

Nico Schuyt wrote in news:[email protected]:

At your age should feel passion for other things in life

Well, I had to write I'm found of repairing DVD-recordables.

 

[Eric B. Bednarz]

Flash 6 plugin for Linux:

http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html

<http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/faq.html>

| 8. Where is Flash for PowerPC Linux?
|
| It doesn't exist probably because Macromedia management doesn't
| feel there is demand.

And here's to Hypecrest:

| Sign the Flash plugin for Linux/PPC petition.

Since this is a web authoring group, here's some related fun:
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I doubt that there is any other OS/architecture combination where that
is possible (I don't meet the hardware requirements to do that,
unfortunately).

Won't work with Lynx though. It's a Netscape-style plugin (also supported
in Opera, Mozilla, etc) without a standalone executable.

That sucks anyway. For Losedoze, there is (or used to be, at least) a
standalone player included; as to the subject line, it might still
possible to view flash movies when browsing with lynx.