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Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions
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Philip Webb |
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Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions |
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Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:06:14 -0500 (EST) |
970111 David Combs wrote:
> I still think using lynx.cfg for LOCAL options (ie for a given user)
> is user UNfriendly. Why? Because the user has to COPY the MAIN
> lynx.cfg to HIS OWN home directory, hack it with the personal option,
> and then get screwed when the system administrator puts up a NEW
> VERSION of lynx with a corresponding NEW VERSION of lynx.cfg --
> which action the USER might (a) not even know has happened
> and (b) when he does realize it, have to RE-copy and RE-hack
> the .cfg. NOT real "friendly".
this raises a quite separate point, which i had planned to raise sometime
& which i have strong feelings about (friendly grins, etc):
some of us -- me included -- are not sysadmins: maybe quite a few of us:
maybe most or nearly all of the blind or partially sighted users of Lynx
(which does not include me).
one of the things which is needed -- rather than even more patches & stuff --
is separate installation packages for sysadmins & the rest:
the rest of us don't need to bother about anonymous accounts, SSL, etc
but we do want to put the binary, cfg & help files in our own directories.
isn't this really the way Lynx should be heading: something you DON'T have
to ask your sysadmin to do for you ...
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- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, Laura Eaves, 1997/01/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, David Combs, 1997/01/11
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- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, Laura Eaves, 1997/01/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, Foteos Macrides, 1997/01/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, Laura Eaves, 1997/01/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, Foteos Macrides, 1997/01/12
- Re: LYNX-DEV numbered linx: 2 suggestions, Laura Eaves, 1997/01/20