21016 Paul Taylor wrote: > I hope you don't mind my sending you an email.
not at all, but the place for all such queries is lynx-dev, to which i am forwarding this as a cc. > I found your Beginner's guide to Lynx very useful. thanx: i wrote it after replying to many simple queries on lynx-dev. > As a web designer I'm trying to use Lynx to check the pages I'm designing > for a National Health Service site here in the UK. > The site needs to be fully accessible, > and I thought a text browser like Lynx might assist me. very much one of the purposes for which Lynx has been developed. > I have changed the StartFile in lynx.cfg , so that the browser starts > at a page on my PC, which is running Windows 2000 and IIS5. > I have defined it to search for a page on IIS5 thus: > http://paul1/lynx.htm , where paul1 is the name of my PC, > & hence the local server address & lynx.htm a test page for Lynx to find. we need to know the actual full path: when i try the URL you give, Opera 6.02 defaults to www.paul1.com & tells me it can't find lynx.htm . > This works perfectly, if I'm already connected to the Internet. > However, if I'm offline, this will not work: IIS is working, > as all other browsers (IE6 NN4.7 NN7 Opera6) are able to find the page. > there must be something else in the lynx.cfg that I need to amend, > as well as the startfile. can you tell me what it is, please? > > Paul Taylor : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : www.technocurve.co.uk to find a local file, surely you have to use file://pathname . it puzzles me that Opera & NN know where to find it. ordinarily, i don't use IE or Windows, so i don't know if that might affect it. might it not be better to make your bookmark file the startfile & then bookmark both the http & file versions of the URL? anyone else at lynx-dev have a suggestion? TD? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
