Walter Barnes wrote: > From: Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Walter Barnes wrote: >> >>>> From: taipan67 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> just wget for source-downloading, & save a copy of the blfs-book >>>> locally, as html-pages can be read with 'less' - navigation is fiddly >>>> >>> Less can read web pages? :-O Well there's a shock, thanks! >>> >>> Walter >>> >>> >> I just tried this and it just shows them as plain text, .i.e all the >> html tags are displayed as is, not rendered... I opened the index.html >> file from the blfs book :-) >> > > Hmmm... I'll try it myself but I had already downloaded lynx before reading > taipan's message so if it doesn't work I can use that instead. > > Walter > > My version of less (394) recognises html to the extent that it displays the text similarly to a man-page - the html-tags themselves are not reproduced as text, so it's readable.
Lynx is definitely preferable - navigation via hyperlinks is much easier, the text is colour-coded differently for codeblocks, & gpm's copy/paste works. I posted a report about the lynx-md5sum back in June, but it appears to have been overlooked - hopefully your report will prompt an adjustment to the book... taipan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
