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Re: LYNX-DEV home page
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Laura Eaves |
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Re: LYNX-DEV home page |
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Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:53:31 -0400 (EDT) |
> From address@hidden Wed Aug 13 21:23:04 1997
> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: LYNX-DEV home page
>...
> How do I set the default home page in Lynx?? I created a file called .lynxrc
> and
> put "http://hermes.office.efn.org" in it, but that doesn't work.
First of all, .lynxrc does not specify the start file.
.lynxrc is a file generated by lynx when you save options on
the options page. (Use the O command to bring up the options page.)
There are 3 ways to specify your start file:
1) on the command line
lynx http://hermes.office.efn.org/
2) environment variable: execute the following before running lynx:
WWW_HOME=http://hermes.office.efn.org/
export WWW_HOME
This sets the value of WWW_HOME in your environment to the given value.
Lynx checks this variable to set the startfile.
3) modify lynx.cfg. lynx.cfg is a global configuration file read by lynx
at startup. It is usually installed in /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg.
Copy thsi file, change the setting for STARTFILE, save to some file, say
mylynx.cfg, then run
lynx -cfg mylynx.cfg ...
(To avoid going through this trouble yourself, you
could alwyas ask your sys admin to reset STARTFILE for you in
/usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg. Then you woulnd't need to use the -cfg option.)
Hope that answers your question.
--le
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