Re: LYNX-DEV can't load root directories with Lynx_w32

[bonkers]

file://localhost/D:\ seems to work on Win95. (note the slash) Lynx takes a
long
time to come up with a screen but it works. The title is "Welcome
directory"
whatever that means. There is no "up to..." link either.

In any case Lynx is written for the UNIX platform and if we Wintel users
want
it on our systems we will have to bear with Lynx's quirks.

Lloyd Rasmussen wrote on 02/20/98:
>I don't know if this would work the same way in Win95, but my
>Lynx/386, when pointed to the root directory of my C: drive,
>bookmarked it as
>file://localhost/../
>(Lynx is running in a Lynx subdirectory on the C: drive),
>and it called my D: root directory
>file://localhost/d:/
>
>There are probably shorter names, but since Lynx generated them, I
>figure they might be more likely to work.
>These URL's don't work in Internet Explorer, because I E never heard
>of localhost. I use my Lynx_boo.htm file as a start file for I E,
>since I will often want to get two different views of a site.
>
>
>On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:38:30 +0100, K. Peijnenborg
><address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I tried navigating the directory structure on my
>>hard disk with Lynx and found that backing up to
>>root level causes Lynx to hang. Also, when I try
>>G file:///<drive>:/ on a hard drive or diskette,
>>Lynx just locks up. Then I tried file:///<drive>:/.
>>(note the dot) which worked, but showed the amusing
>>first entry 'Up to ..'. But the problem of not
>>being able to go 'Up to' the root remains.
>>
>>I use Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.108 for Win32.

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Kenneth Kwok
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