Re: [Lynx-dev] Viewing local directories

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "dan" <address@hidden>
| To: "lynx-dev" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2020 6:30:08 PM
| Subject: [Lynx-dev] Viewing local directories

| Hello.
| 
| In past, years ago, I was able to use lynx to view the items in a directory.
| 
| This included, as I recall, only the name of a file/directory on each line 
with
| perhaps its size if a nondirectory entry.
| 
| Now this is a typical line:
| 
| -rwxr-xr-x    1 dandunfe staff      74362 Mar  7 15:54 ack
| 
| The "ack" at the end is an application in the directory, the rest is info 
about
| that file.
| 
| Is there some config, or possible new one, item to provide just the
| file/directory name and size?

no - it doesn't have that.  The relevant settings in the options menu

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html#InteractiveOptions

are these items:

  Listing and Accessing Files
  Use Passive FTP (!)              : [ON_]
  FTP sort criteria                : [By Date]
  Local directory sort criteria    : [Directories first]
  Local directory sort order       : [By Date_]
  Show dot files                   : [OFF]

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