Hello Group,
I have been a long time Windows user and am pretty proficient with that
OS as well as the Apple system. I stumbled across the Lynx browser
online a while back and it reminds me of the good old days of Unix Shell
operation before the days of the specialized browsers with graphics and
video/audio. I wanted to see if I could get this port to function on my
system.
I first went to The Lynx basic Installation support center:
https://support.a-dato.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017158257-Lynx-Installation-Basics#DownloadLynxviaMicrosoftAppInstaller
and downloaded the 2.89 release which was not compiled. To compile that
version is a bit beyond me, so then I visited
https://invisible-island.net/
and got a compiled version. I also got the Cygwin version from
https://cygwin.org that has an installer that with a bit of getting
used to was able to install a version that is compiled from their
massive repository. it was also 2.89.
I got both of them to run, except for one major issue. I cannot view
local files on my Windows system. If I press the G for Go to URL and
type in file://localhost/ and a path to a local folder or file, I get an
error saying simply: 'cannot connect to (either FTP server) or local
file. I have played with the settings in the Lynx.cfg file, but nothing
seems to work. I may be missing something because of my relative
ignorance of the Unix type language even in such a basic file as the cfg
file.
I also downloaded a compiled version from one of the servers (I forget
which one) that has an issue with the SSL (https) web addresses. In the
installation read me file, it gave instructions as to where to get the
SSL files(libeay32.dll, openssl.exe and
ssleay32.dll) and where to place them in the directories; (Lynx install
directory and/or Windows/systems32 directory.) I did this and I still
can't get the program in that version to find the SSL files.
If any of you more knowledgeable people can give me instructions to get
one or more of these various compiled version to work properly, I would
greatly appreciate it.
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