Re: lynx-dev Lynx book

[Robert Duclos]

     What's wrong with the  Lynx User's Guide at:
       http://www.crl.com/%7Esubir/lynx/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html


On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Philip Webb wrote:

> 980625 John Poltorak & others wrote about a possible Lynx book:
> > 980625 Thomas Dickey suggested:
> >> Fote is the best qualified to work on something like that
> >> but would require a good editor to keep the book from growing w/o bounds.
>  
> i see  2  problems: (1) the level of reader at whom to aim the book:
> FM is a leading expert on the Internet & its related software
> & would write the definitive work on their history 1986-96:
> it would have  12 - 100  readers in total & launch  2 - 3  PhD theses;
> someone like Henry -- who no doubt doesn't have the time --
> would write a very good beginners' guide;
> (2) Lynx keeps developing, partly to keep up with the Internet itself,
> so any guide would likely be out-of-date before reaching the bookstores.
> 
> there is a need for a WWW page for beginners linked from the Help pages,
> which i might try to compose given a little time & encouragement;
> it would need to be hosted somewhere.
> 
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