Lynx README file
WHAT IS LYNX?
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running
cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., 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 and VMS.
Lynx can be used to access information on the WWW, or to build
information systems intended primarily for local access. For example,
Lynx has been used to build several Campus Wide Information Systems
(CWIS). In addition, Lynx can be used to build systems isolated within
a single LAN.
For information about Lynx, including new updates, go to the
"Lynx links"
<URL:http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html>.
Lynx is distributed under the GNU General Public License without
restrictions on usage or redistribution, and is supported by the
Lynx user community. See the accompanying COPYHEADER and COPYING
files (in the about_lynx subdirectory) for more details.
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
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 this directory and the doc and samples 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 conerning
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.
To install the help menu system, copy the lynx_help/ and about_lynx/
directories to a public place on your system. Then, 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.
INSTALLING LYNX
To install Lynx, follow the steps listed in the INSTALLATION file
located in the source distribution.
PROBLEMS
If you experience problems installing or compiling Lynx, please read
the PROBLEMS file located in the source distribution. If your problem
is not addressed there, there is a mailing list called lynx-dev which
is frequented by Lynx experts. 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
Finally, please...please...please do not send commands to the
lynx-dev mailing list. BTW, 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).