On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Barry Selk wrote:
}On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Larry Clayton wrote:
}:On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Dane Helm wrote:
}:
}:> ok..I use pine 4.02 (atleast that is what it says in the corner). Now I
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}I keep meaning to) but I believe pine can automatically bring up an
}assortment of 'helpers' such as lynx.
True, but only in versions later than 3.95. My ISP won't upgrade :(.
(Still preparing to install Monkey (no toy, imho); using a shell acct.)
}Off to check out 'man pine' .....
I'm using Moss Doss and a very-obscure, but quite-good freeware telecomm
program called Conex. Its docs are curious; although they seem to be
well-written, they nevertheless really seem to be for (nonmalicious)
hackers and professionals. Conex has a lovely feature, not too well
doc'd, that lets you capture a line from the screen and effectively load
it into the kbd buffer; it then inserts a <ret> automagically after
that.
In practice, I hit ^Z to leave Pine, get a bash prompt, key in "lynx"*
plus a space, hit F8 to put Conex into Edit mode, see the (block) cursor
become much taller, Page Up to jump up many lines (50-line VGA), edit
out everything but the URL, double-check to see I'm on the line I want,
hit <ret>, and Lynx takes off like a lynx. Conex has jumped
automatically back into its normal mode. Much more fuss to read and
understand, than to actually do.
*Actually, "lx", my alias for "lynx".
I describe it because it's a useful model for someone who's
contemplating such a feature in something they could be configuring or
writing.
Regards,
|* Nicholas Bodley *|* Electronic Technician {*} Autodidact & Polymath
|* Waltham, Mass. *|* -----------------------------------------------
|* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *|* The personal computer industry will have become
|* Amateur musician *|* mature when crashes become unacceptable.
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