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| author | Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> | 1997-02-06 21:38:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> | 1997-02-06 21:38:08 -0500 |
| commit | 9c63ba04a5785f8ad069bf660402530617451a06 (patch) | |
| tree | 8597ad92f9e4398c149583c22798d67e31e3dbad /lynx_help | |
| parent | c3ec4181d988501e4d7116f32c669d5ca69e7060 (diff) | |
| download | lynx-snapshots-9c63ba04a5785f8ad069bf660402530617451a06.tar.gz | |
snapshot of project "lynx", label v2_6fm_970206
Diffstat (limited to 'lynx_help')
| -rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/keystroke_commands/option_help.html | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html | 2 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html b/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html index 7eea006c..74122162 100644 --- a/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html +++ b/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ <!DOCTYPE html public "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> <html> <head> -<title>Lynx Users Guide v2.6FM</title> +<title>Lynx Users Guide v2.7</title> <link rev="made" href="mailto:lynx-dev@sig.net"> </head> <body> -<h1>Lynx Users Guide v2.6FM</h1> +<h1>Lynx Users Guide v2.7</h1> Lynx is a fully-featured <em>World Wide Web</em> (<em>WWW</em>) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ return to Lynx or the '<em>></em>' command to save the options to a English alphabet), for editing their filenames and locations (<em>filepath</em>), and descriptions. Lynx will create bookmark files, if they don't already exist, when you first '<em>a</em>'dd - a bookmark link to them. However, if you've specifed a + a bookmark link to them. However, if you've specified a subdirectory (e.g., ./BM/lynx_bookmarks.html), that subdirectory must already exist. Note that on VMS you should use the URL syntax for the filepath (e.g., <em>not</em> @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ return to Lynx or the '<em>></em>' command to save the options to a <dd>The header string which Lynx sends to servers to indicate the User-Agent is displayed here. Changes may be disallowed via the <em>-restrictions</em> switch. Otherwise, the header can be - changed temporarily to a string such as <em>L_y_n_x/2.6</em> + changed temporarily to a string such as <em>L_y_n_x/2.7</em> for access to sites which discriminate against Lynx based on checks for the presence of "Lynx" in the header. If changed during a Lynx session, the default User-Agent header can @@ -1131,13 +1131,13 @@ to the VALUE, as it would for a normal submit button. Some document authors incorrectly use an ALT instead of VALUE attribute for this purpose. Lynx "cooperates" by treating ALT as a synonym for VALUE when present in an INPUT tag with TYPE="image". If neither a VALUE nor an ALT attribute -is present, Lynx dispays "[IMAGE]-Submit" as the string for such buttons. +is present, Lynx displays "[IMAGE]-Submit" as the string for such buttons. If clickable images is set, the "[IMAGE]" portion of the string is a link for the image, and the "Submit" portion is the button for submitting the form. Otherwise, the entire string is treated as a submit button. If a VALUE or ALT attribute is present and clickable images is set, Lynx prepends "[IMAGE]" as a link for the image, followed by '-' and then -the attribute's value as the dispayed string for the submit button. +the attribute's value as the displayed string for the submit button. Note that earlier versions of Lynx would send a name=value pair instead of a 0,0 coordinate pair if a TYPE="image" submit button was NAME-ed, had a VALUE attribute in the INPUT tag, and was used to submit the form. The @@ -1584,7 +1584,7 @@ TYPE="hidden" can be used as a sort of state management by <a href="#19" >HTML Forms</a>, a more general approach involves exchanges of MIME headers between the server and browser. When replying to a request, the server can send a <em>Set-Cookie</em> MIME header which contains -information (<em>cookies</em>) relevent to the browser's request, and in +information (<em>cookies</em>) relevant to the browser's request, and in subsequent requests the browser can send a <em>Cookie</em> MIME header with information derived from previously received cookies. @@ -1682,6 +1682,9 @@ where <dd>used to specify the anonymous account. <dt><code>-auth=ID:PW</code> <dd>id and password for protected pages. + <dt><code>-base</code> + <dd>prepend a request URL comment and BASE tag to text/html + outputs for -source or -mime_header dumps. <dt><code>-book</code> <dd>use the bookmark page as the startfile. The default or command line startfile is still set for the Main screen @@ -2014,7 +2017,8 @@ Craig Lavender. 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. +released as v2.6 in September 1996. The Lynx2-6FM code set was released +as v2.7 in February 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/keystroke_commands/option_help.html b/lynx_help/keystroke_commands/option_help.html index 147e698d..1c636fe8 100644 --- a/lynx_help/keystroke_commands/option_help.html +++ b/lynx_help/keystroke_commands/option_help.html @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ letter of the desired bookmark file, but can enter '=' to invoke the STANDARD selection menu, or RETURN for the default bookmark file. - + Bookmark file - If non-empty and multi-bookmarks is OFF, it specifies your default '<A HREF="bookmark_help.html">Bookmark file</A>'. If multi-bookmarks is STANDARD or ADVANCED, @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ will be sorted within FTP listings. The current options include "By Filename", "By Size", "By Type", and "By Date". - + Personal Mail - You may set your mail address here so that Address when mailing messages to other people or mailing files to yourself, your email address - can be automatically filled in. You email + can be automatically filled in. Your email address will also be sent to HTTP servers in a from: field. @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ e.g., en for English, fr for French, etc. Can be a comma-separated list in descending order of preferences. - + Preferred Document - The character set you prefer if sets in addition Charset to ISO-8859-1 and US-ASCII are available from servers. Use MIME notation (e.g., ISO-8859-2) @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ those values are always assumed by default. Can be a comma-separated list in descending order of preferences. - + VI keys - If set to 'ON' then the lowercase h, j, k, and l, keys will be mapped to left-arrow, down-arrow, up-arrow, and right-arrow, respectively. The @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ to indicate the User-Agent is displayed here. Changes may be disallowed via the -restrictions switch. Otherwise, the header can be changed - temporarily to a string such as L_y_n_x/2.6 for + temporarily to a string such as L_y_n_x/2.7 for access to sites which discriminate against Lynx based on checks for the presence of "Lynx" in the header. If changed during a Lynx session, the @@ -178,13 +178,13 @@ current document is reloaded, with the no-cache flags set, on exit from the Options Menu. Changes of the header are not saved in the RC file. - NOTE that Netscape Communications Corp. has + NOTE that Netscape Communications Corp. has claimed that false transmissions of "Mozilla" as - the are a copyright infringement, which will be - prosecuted. DO NOT misrepresent Lynx as Mozilla. - The Options Menu issues a warning about possible - copyright infringement whenever the header is - changed to one which does not include "Lynx" or + the User-Agent are a copyright infringement, which + will be prosecuted. DO NOT misrepresent Lynx as + Mozilla. The Options Menu issues a warning about + possible copyright infringement whenever the header + is changed to one which does not include "Lynx" or "lynx". Local execution - If set to 'ALWAYS ON', Lynx will locally execute diff --git a/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html b/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html index 153c8d4e..61800f4f 100644 --- a/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html +++ b/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ in FORM tags, and Lynx recognizes that as a synonym for TITLE. URLs. The <em>cc</em> values can be single addresses, or comma- or semi-colon-separated lists of addresses. All addresses, and any <em>body</em> values, will be offered for approval by the user before -proceding with a mailing, and any other name=value pairs in the +proceeding with a mailing, and any other name=value pairs in the <em>?searchpart</em> will be ignored. Also, if the mailto URL is the ACTION for a FORM, any <em>body</em> in a <em>?searchpart</em> tack-on will be ignored, because the body of the mailing must be constructed |