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Re: lynx-dev Re: help using lynx locally
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Al Gilman |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: help using lynx locally |
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Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:59:34 -0500 |
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
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>Marvin the Paranoid Android says:
>It's no good just pressing that.
>
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