The simplest escape to the local file system is g)o and for the URL to go to just type a full stop. That's right '.' full stop. And carriage return. You should get a directory listing for whatever works out to be your lynx home directory. From there you can navigate up and down the file system. I do find I can't access the root directory for the disk volume, though. This is with
Lynx 2.8.2rel.1 (01 Jun 1999) So use the capital-G 'G' to pre-load the goTo URL with the current file://localhost/c:/etc/ and edit from there to get across to another major branch of the file system folder tree. Use what Windows calls "DOS names" as in mydocu~1 for "My Documents" etc. These are 8 characters long ending in ~<digit, ususally 1>. So six character of the agglutenated form of the file folder name and ~1 and away you go. Al At 07:21 AM 2002-03-27 , Webmaster Jim wrote: >On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:53:21AM -0000, Chris Thomas wrote: >> Dear James >> >> I am in the throes of setting up a home page which I would like to be >> accessible and found a reference to your Lynx browser at the RNIB site. >> >> I've downloaded lynx 2.8.4 P5 successsfully and got it running so that >> it accesses the web and it is already very useful. >> >> However, I am having no luck accessing sites on my own PC (Windows 98) >> using the instructions in the help document - lynx just does not seem >> to be able to access my local page index.htm in its directory whereas >> internet explorer, netscape and opera can. >> >> Can you or your collegues provide a computer moron a simple >> instruction to try so that I can a) start lynx without accessing the >> internet if need be and b)then simply type in my local file name to >> load? I presume I need to modify the lynx.cfg file but definitely need >> expert help. >> >> I would be exceedingly grateful! >> Best wishes >> Chris http://homepages.tesco.net/~Chris.Jrthomas/ >> Dr Chris Thomas, Cambridge UK > >Chris -- > > You should be able to do this in a DOS window: > >LYNX . > >--or-- > >LYNX C:\ > > The following is likely to work, but hard to type: > >LYNX file://localhost/c: > > No lynx.cfg modification required! > >/jim >------ ><http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/net/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm> ><http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=%22web+home+for+jim+spath%22> >Marvin the Paranoid Android says: >It's no good just pressing that. > >; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
