Re: lynx-dev Lynx book

[John Poltorak]

> 
> Any way of knowing just how many installations of
> Lynx there are out there?
> 
> Also, estimate of actual users?

I looked Hobbes (hobbes.nmsu.edu) a few minutes ago. That's the main
repository of OS/2 software on the Internet and there had been 130
downloads of the updated OS/2 version which was only released within
the last couple of days.
 
> (That list of people on this mailing-list was
> pretty small...)
> 
> By the way, that about O'Reilly was a JOKE.

Oh really...

:-)

> > > > From address@hidden Wed Jun 24 06:54:42 1998 
> > > > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 98 14:23:47 +0000 
> > > > From: John Poltorak <address@hidden> 
> > > >  
> > > > Has anyone written a book on Lynx? 
> > > >  
> > > > A Nutshell book would be handy... 
> > ...  
> > > Yes, O'Reilly tells me that one is coming out in about 
> > > nine months.  The reason for the long delay is that 
> > > they are having a hard time getting the author, 
> > > Mr. John Plotorak, to start work on it. 
> > I would think that 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).
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thomas E. Dickey
> > address@hidden
> > http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
> > 
> 

-- 
John