Dear Lynx development,
Thank you for your help. I tried what you said, and it worked
immediately! My USAToday home page loaded very quickly -- what a
relief!
Here is how I edited my Lynx.bat file:
@ECHO OFF
set term=vt100
set home=c:\progra~1\lynx
set temp=c:\tmp
set lynx_cfg=c:\progra~1\lynx\lynx.cfg
c:\progra~1\lynx\lynx.exe http://USAToday.com
I unzipped the lynx_w32.2.8.2rel.1.zip file into a Lynx directory I
created in my Windows 95 'Program Files' directory, then found the DOS
name for that directory (progra~1) and substituted that for 'programs'
in the sample batch file Jim Spath provided me.
Of course, my adventure with Lynx is just beginning. I have been
studying the documentation and trying the commands, and I am realizing
that I will have to edit the lynx.cfg file, in order to use many of
them. In particular, the p)rint command, o)ptions command, d)ownload
command, and the V)isted links command do not work...yet! I will have
to review the DOS commands for printing, to see if I can insert a
PRINTER command into the .cfg file (I think...). I may need to get this
'Kermit' program, to download files. I will try to search the lynx-dev
archives for help on these topics, although, again, I appreciate any
quick reference anyone can give me.
It's nice having some online computer companions to help me with all
this. Ever since I entered the Windows 95 world as a home user, many
years separated from the camaraderie of my old programming environment,
I feel like I've been lost on a desert island, surrounded by immense
seas of ignorance of the uncharted (by many) ocean of the Windows OS.
It was nice earlier to have been programming in UCSD Pascal, where there
was a good chance to figure out the why's and wherefore's when things
went wrong, and also how to make things better. I am also interested in
installing Linux on my system, but I guess I'd better take one thing at
a time.
Thanks again for all your help.
David Silverman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
