Re: [ql-users] Lynx and QPC2
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:21 AM Subject: [ql-users] Lynx and QPC2 skip To get a copy, goto www.dilwyn.uk6.net/internet/index.html or browse there from my home page of course. The idea is that this cut down version will be enough to get people going, as they become more familiar with it they can ditch my version and start to use all the other parts of Jonathan Hudson's full distribution which includes sources and all sorts of extras. Unzip lynxrun.zip to win1_l_ (I hope Jonathan used a cross compiler on a Linux box and then tested it with UQLX I've got the archive set up so that it'll go here by default). Load LYNX_BOOT from there, check whether you need to add ENV_BIN (Environment variables) and SIGEXT30_REXT (Signal Extensions) - they are included, but you will need to remove the REMark from that line if you don't normally have them installed on your system. The LYNX_BOOT is extensively commented by Jonathan, I've added even more comments to help you get it going. What about unzipping to a windows machine, renaming the directories so that they do notr cause problems for qdos and then rezip them. Surely this is cleaner! I hope I've understood enough of the package for this to be a useable version for most people. Certainly, no software is ever truly bug-free or beyond improvement, so suggestions for corrections and improvements are welcome. It's only been tested on my own QPC2 system and will only work with v3.30 or later of QPC2. It hasn't been tested with UQLX or SOQL (the other TCP/IP capable QL systems) - perhaps someone would try it and let me know! I hope it works and proves to be of value for some of you when QPC2 v3.30 goes on release. Shameless bragging for a moment - I managed to use Lynx from within QPC2 to download a QPC2 update from Marcel's website and even unzipped it from QPC2 into Windows (turns out it was older than the Beta version I was using but who cares, it worked!) and in case you think you can get a free update from Marcel using Lynx and QL Unzip, oh no, the password protection for registered users works in exactly the same way from QDOS unzip as it does in Winzip! -- Dilwyn Jones Why run lynx from QPC2 when you can run better browsers within Windows? If it is to avoid hackers, viruses then it provides no protection whatsoever! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Lynx and QPC2
OK, time to eat my words. After a little while browsing with Lynx, I even downloaded a QPC2 update from Marcel's website using Lynx from within QPC2 itself. I hope I have now created a useable minimal Lynx distro on my website for download. Even this 'minimal' distribution is about 480KB in length. The full 2.4MB version including sources is there too. Hopefully, this paves the way for people to use QPC2 v3.30 to browse the web when it goes on full release (I've been fortunate enough to be a Beta tester). To get a copy, goto www.dilwyn.uk6.net/internet/index.html or browse there from my home page of course. The idea is that this cut down version will be enough to get people going, as they become more familiar with it they can ditch my version and start to use all the other parts of Jonathan Hudson's full distribution which includes sources and all sorts of extras. Unzip lynxrun.zip to win1_l_ (I hope I've got the archive set up so that it'll go here by default). Load LYNX_BOOT from there, check whether you need to add ENV_BIN (Environment variables) and SIGEXT30_REXT (Signal Extensions) - they are included, but you will need to remove the REMark from that line if you don't normally have them installed on your system. The LYNX_BOOT is extensively commented by Jonathan, I've added even more comments to help you get it going. I hope I've understood enough of the package for this to be a useable version for most people. Certainly, no software is ever truly bug-free or beyond improvement, so suggestions for corrections and improvements are welcome. It's only been tested on my own QPC2 system and will only work with v3.30 or later of QPC2. It hasn't been tested with UQLX or SOQL (the other TCP/IP capable QL systems) - perhaps someone would try it and let me know! I hope it works and proves to be of value for some of you when QPC2 v3.30 goes on release. Shameless bragging for a moment - I managed to use Lynx from within QPC2 to download a QPC2 update from Marcel's website and even unzipped it from QPC2 into Windows (turns out it was older than the Beta version I was using but who cares, it worked!) and in case you think you can get a free update from Marcel using Lynx and QL Unzip, oh no, the password protection for registered users works in exactly the same way from QDOS unzip as it does in Winzip! -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 06/01/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
