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author | Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> | 1997-10-27 19:05:04 -0500 |
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committer | Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> | 1997-10-27 19:05:04 -0500 |
commit | 8f8c57cc7c0e876cd291e2b4de23a52e060b30ba (patch) | |
tree | b813d59380c9db4f7b59bf8a5a965aa606627183 /lynx_help | |
parent | cbcc3a1e1a82b01eea370bf7841e6b5f4d1e46c1 (diff) | |
download | lynx-snapshots-8f8c57cc7c0e876cd291e2b4de23a52e060b30ba.tar.gz |
snapshot of project "lynx", label v2-7-1ac_0-89
Diffstat (limited to 'lynx_help')
-rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html | 37 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/about_lynx.html | 97 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/lynx-dev.html | 70 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html | 8 |
5 files changed, 197 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html b/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html index ca81d1a2..7d431aa0 100644 --- a/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html +++ b/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html @@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ to keep track of information across a series of related form submissions, but have the potential for including information about the user that might be considered to represent an invasion of privacy. NOTE, in this regard, that Lynx has implemented the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> <em>DISABLED</em> attribute for <em>all</em> of its form fields. These can be used to keep track of information across submissions, and to cast it unmodifiable in the current form, but keep the user aware that it will @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ elements is included in the test subdirectory of the Lynx distribution. <h2><A NAME="21"><em>Lynx and HTML Tabs</em></a></h2> Lynx implements the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> TAB element only when LEFT alignment is in effect. If the alignment is CENTER or RIGHT (JUSTIFY is not yet implemented in Lynx, and is treated as a synonym for LEFT), or if the TAB element indicates a position to the @@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ links with brief, descriptive link names, analogous to a Windows toolbar. Such windows have been termed <em>banners</em>. <p>Lynx recognizes and processes all of the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> REL attribute tokens in LINK elements for creating a <em>banner</em>, and a number of others which have subsequently been proposed. These <em>banner</em> tokens are <em>Home</em>, <em>ToC</em>, <em>Contents</em>, @@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ a '<em>#</em>' at the top, left-hand corner of the screen when the second or subsequent pages of the document are being displayed. <p>Lynx also recognizes the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> BANNER container element, and will create a <em>banner</em> based on its content if one has not already been created based on LINK elements. Lynx treats the MicroSoft MARQUEE element as a synonym for BANNER (i.e., @@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ displayed, to indicate it's accessibility via the TOOLBAR keystroke command. <h2><A NAME="24"><em>Lynx and HTML Footnotes</em></a></h2> Lynx implements the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> FN element similarly to a named <em>A</em>nchor within the current document, and assumes that the footnotes will be positioned at the bottom of the document. However, in contrast to named <em>A</em>nchors, the FN container @@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ markup that is valid in the BODY of the document. <h2><A NAME="25"><em>Lynx and HTML Notes</em></a></h2> Lynx implements the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> NOTE element (<em>Admonishment</em>) as a labeled block, i.e., as if a new paragraph were indicated whether or not paragraphing markup is included in its content, with greater than normal left and right margins, and with @@ -1549,19 +1549,19 @@ NOTE, except for recognition of the ID attribute as a named <em>A</em>nchor. <h2><A NAME="26"><em>Lynx and HTML Lists</em></a></h2> Lynx implements the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> list elements UL (<em>Unordered List</em>), OL (<em>Ordered List</em>), and DL (<em>Definition List</em>), and their associated attributes, and elements (LH, LI, DT, and DD) for the most part as described in that specification. The lists can be nested, yielding progressively greater indentation, up to six levels. The <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html" +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html" >HTML 2.0</a> MENU and DIR elements <em>both</em> are treated as synonyms for UL with the PLAIN attribute (no <em>bullets</em>, see below). Note, thus, that neither DIR nor MENU yields a series of columns with 24-character spacing. A single nesting index is maintained, so that different types of List elements can be used for different levels within the nest. Also, the -<a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> FIG, CAPTION and CREDIT elements are treated as valid within list blocks. They will be rendered with indentation appropriate for the current nesting depth, and the CAPTION or CREDIT elements will have a <em>CAPTION:</em> or @@ -1609,7 +1609,7 @@ DD elements unless the COMPACT attribute has been specified. <h2><A NAME="27"><em>Lynx and HTML Quotes</em></a></h2> The <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> and +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> and later specifications provide for two classes of quotation in HTML documents. Block quotes, designated by the BLOCKQUOTE element (or it's abbreviated synonym BQ in HTML 3.0), have implied paragraph breaks preceding and following @@ -1684,7 +1684,7 @@ disabled by default via the configuration file (lynx.cfg), and the default can be toggled via the <em>-ismap</em> command line switch. <p>Lynx also recognizes the <a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html">HTML 3.0</a> FIG and OVERLAY elements, and will handle them as intended for text clients. These are the ideal way to handle <em>client-side-image-maps</em>, because the FIG content provides complete alternative markup, rather than relying @@ -2234,14 +2234,13 @@ of Academic Computing Services at The University of Kansas. Lynx was implemented by Lou Montulli and maintained by Garrett Arch Blythe and Craig Lavender. -<p><em>Foteos Macrides</em> and members of the -<a href="../about_lynx/about_lynx-dev.html">lynx-dev</a> list have -developed and supported Lynx since release of v2.3 in May 1994. The -Lynx2-3FM code set was released as v2.4 in June 1995. The Lynx2-4FM -code set was released as v2.5 in May 1996. The Lynx2-5FM code set was -released as v2.6 in September 1996. The Lynx2-6FM code set was released -as v2.7 in February 1997, and v2.7.1 with bug fixes for v2.7 was -released in April 1997. +<p><em>Foteos Macrides</em> and members of the <a href="lynx-dev.html"> +lynx-dev</a> list have developed and supported Lynx since release of v2.3 +in May 1994. The Lynx2-3FM code set was released as v2.4 in June 1995. +The Lynx2-4FM code set was released as v2.5 in May 1996. The Lynx2-5FM +code set was released as v2.6 in September 1996. The Lynx2-6FM code set +was released as v2.7 in February 1997, and v2.7.1 with bug fixes for v2.7 +was released in April 1997. <p>Lynx has incorporated code from a variety of sources along the way. The earliest versions of Lynx included code from Earl Fogel diff --git a/lynx_help/about_lynx.html b/lynx_help/about_lynx.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..33faa7cd --- /dev/null +++ b/lynx_help/about_lynx.html @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>About Lynx</TITLE> +<LINK rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@sig.net"> +</HEAD> + +<BODY> +<BANNER> +[ <A HREF="lynx-dev.html">About Lynx-Dev</A> | +<A HREF="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/">Lynx-Dev Archives</A> ] +</BANNER> + +<h1><em>About Lynx</em></h1> + +Lynx is a fully featured World-Wide Web browser for users on both Unix and +VMS platforms who are connected to those systems via cursor-addressable, +character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes VT100 terminals, +and desktop-based software packages emulating VT100 terminals (e.g., +Kermit, Procomm, etc.). + +<P>For information on how to use Lynx see the +<A HREF="../lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html">Lynx User's Guide</A>, or the +<A HREF="../lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html">Lynx help files</A>. + +<H2><EM>Credits and Copyright</EM></H2> + +Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within +Academic Computing Services of <A +HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/index.html">The University of Kansas</A>. + +<P>Lynx was originally developed by +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Lou.Montulli.html" +>Lou Montulli,</A> +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Michael.Grobe/Michael.Grobe.html" +>Michael Grobe,</A> +and <A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Charles.Rezac.html" +>Charles Rezac.</A> +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/people/Garrett/Garrett_Arch_Blythe.html" +>Garrett Blythe</A> created +<A HREF="http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_doslynx/doslynx.html">DosLynx</A> +and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Following the departures of +Lou and Garrett for positions at Netscape in the summer of 1994, +<EM>Craig Lavender</EM> provided support services for Lynx, and +<EM>Ravikumar Kolli</EM> for DosLynx. + +<P>Currently Lynx is being maintained and supported by members of the +Internet community coordinated via the +<A HREF="#lynx-dev_list"><EM>lynx-dev mailing list</EM></A>. + +<P>Lynx is copyrighted by the University of Kansas and is distributed +<A HREF="COPYHEADER">without restrictions on usage or redistribution</A> +under the <A HREF="COPYING">GNU General Public License</A>. + +<P>Lynx was built over an early version of the Common Code Library +developed by the CERN WWW Project. That code is copyrighted by CERN. +Lynx contains other sections of code that are copyrighted +by other institutions or individuals. +The Lynx copyright does not override or invalidate those copyrights. + +<P>Thanks to <A NAME="13" +HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People.html#BernersLee" +>Tim Berners-Lee</A> and the other <A NAME="14" +HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People.html">CERN World Wide +Web wizards</A> for the WWW client library code and all of their other +work on the WWW project, NCSA and the +<A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html" +>Mosaic</A> developers, and to everyone out in netland who has +contributed to Lynx's development either directly (through comments +or bug reports) or indirectly (through inspiration and development of +other systems). + +<P>Also, special thanks go to <EM>Foteos Macrides</EM> who ported much of +Lynx to VMS and did much of it's development following Lou Montulli's +and Garrett Blythe's departures from the University of Kansas, and to +<EM>Earl Fogel</EM> of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl implemented +the hypertext engine HYPERREZ in the Unix environment. HYPERREZ was +developed by Niel Larson of Think.com and served as the model for +the early versions of Lynx which did not use the WWW libraries and +had their own hypertext format. + +<H2><A NAME="availability"><EM>Availability</EM></A></H2> + +<p>Information on obtaining the most current version of Lynx is +available via <a href="http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html" +>Lynx links</a>. + +<H2><A NAME="lynx-dev_list"><EM>Mailing List</EM></A></H2> + +We have a listserv mailing list running for lynx development discussion. +If you are interested in joining the list, follow this <A +HREF="lynx-dev.html">link</A>. There also are links to <A +HREF="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/">archives</A> in html +format for this mailing list. + +</BODY> +</HTML> diff --git a/lynx_help/lynx-dev.html b/lynx_help/lynx-dev.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f062f674 --- /dev/null +++ b/lynx_help/lynx-dev.html @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>Lynx-Dev Discussion List</title> +<link rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@sig.net"> +</head> + +<body> +<banner> +[ <a href="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/">Lynx-Dev Archives</a> | +<a href="about_lynx.html">About Lynx</a> ] +</banner> + +<h1><em>Lynx-Dev Discussion List</em></h1> + +Lynx-dev is a majordomo mailing list used by developers and interested +users as a forum to discuss the further development of the Lynx World +Wide Web browser. Topic issues include fixing known bugs, porting Lynx +to various systems, and increasing the usability of Lynx. + +<h2><em>Subscribing to Lynx-Dev</em></h2> + +If you are interested in <em>joining</em> this mailing list, +send email to <a href="mailto:majordomo@sig.net" +>majordomo@sig.net</a> with only the following request +in the body of your message: <em>SUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV address</em><br> +where inclusion of your email address is optional if it can be obtained, +correctly, from the mail headers of your subscription request. + +<p><em>NOTE:</em> Subject headers are ignored by the majordomo. + +<h2><em>Unsubscribing from Lynx-Dev</em></h2> + +To <em>unsubscribe</em>, send an email message to +<a href="mailto:majordomo@sig.net" +>majordomo@sig.net</a> with only the following request +in the body: <em>UNSUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV address</em><br> +where inclusion of your email address is optional if it can be obtained, +correctly, from the mail headers of your request. + +<h2><em>Majordomo Commands</em></h2> + +To receive a brief description of majordomo <em>commands</em>, place +the following request in a message to <a href="mailto:majordomo@sig.net" +>majordomo@sig.net</a>: <em>HELP</em> + +<h2><em>Contacting Lynx-Dev</em></h2> + +If you have questions, problems, or comments about using Lynx or +installing it on your system, send email to +<a href="mailto:lynx-dev@sig.net" +>lynx-dev@sig.net</a> (<em>after you've subscribed</em>). + +<p>If you have problems with majordomo not responding to your requests, +send email to the <em>list owner</em>: <a +href="mailto:majordomo-owner@sig.net" +>majordomo-owner@sig.net</a>. Please, +<em>DO NOT</em> send them to <em>lynx-dev@sig.net</em> as they +will be distributed to everyone on the list and will clutter +up their mailboxes. + +<h2><em>Lynx-Dev Archives</em></h2> + +Archives of messages posted to lynx-dev are now in html format so that +you can view them using Lynx. + +<p>Go to the <a href="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/" +>Lynx-Dev Archives</a>. +</body> +</html> diff --git a/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html b/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html index 32702484..5ff1221d 100644 --- a/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html +++ b/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ <li><a href="keystrokes/keystroke_help.html">Key-stroke Commands</a> | <a href="keystrokes/edit_help.html">Line Editor</a> <li><a href="lynx_url_support.html">Supported URLs</a> -| <a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html" +| <a href="http://www.w3.org/Addressing/Addressing.html" >Help on URLs</a> <li><a href="http://leb.net/blinux/blynx/" >Speech-Friendly Lynx Help Files</a> @@ -24,20 +24,20 @@ >Lynx links</a> | <a href="http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/faq.html" >Lynx FAQ</a> -<li><a href="../about_lynx/about_lynx.html">About Lynx</a> -| <a href="../about_lynx/lynx-dev.html">About Lynx-Dev</a> +<li><a href="about_lynx.html">About Lynx</a> +| <a href="lynx-dev.html">About Lynx-Dev</a> | <a href="http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/lynx/FAQ/" >Al's Picks (FAQ)</a> </ul> <li><a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html" +href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html" >HTML 2.0</a> -| <a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html" +| <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html" >HTML 3.0</a> | <a href="http://www.alis.com:8085/ietf/html/" >HTML i18n</a> -| <a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/" +| <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/" >HTML 3.2</a> | <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/" >HTML 4.0</a> @@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ href="http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/validate/" <li><a href="http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1945.txt" >HTTP 1.0</a> -| <a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/" +| <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/" >HTTP 1.1</a> <li><a -href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TheProject.html" +href="http://www.w3.org/TheProject.html" >The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)</a> <li><a href="http://www.altavista.digital.com/">Alta Vista</a> diff --git a/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html b/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html index d17c5c88..37f78679 100644 --- a/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html +++ b/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ Lynx handles a number of URL types, that are enumerated below. For more details about URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) see <em>RFC1738</em>: <ul plain> -<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/rfc1738.txt" ->http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/rfc1738.txt</a> +<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt" +>http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt</a> <li><a href="ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1738.txt" >ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1738.txt</a> </ul> @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ more details about URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) see <em>RFC1738</em>: the BASE if one was specified, otherwise with respect to the document's absolute URL, using the rules described in <em>RFC1808</em>: <ul plain> -<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/rfc1808.txt" ->http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/rfc1808.txt</a> +<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1808.txt" +>http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1808.txt</a> <li><a href="ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt" >ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1808.txt</a> </ul> |