Re: lynx-dev Question: specify a local file

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> I need to fire up Lynx with a local HTML-coded file specified on   .
> the command line I can acomplish the operation it on my OpenVMS    .
> system, but run into problems on Windows The problem is is how to  .
> code the file:xxx.htm specification to suit Lynx                   .
>
> The local filespec in Windows is something like:
> E:\download\start.htm (which is _not_ the Lynx home directory).

I think this is the same as the DOS terminology:
lynx "file:///E:/download/start.htm"

Be sure to use forward slashes and 3 slashes between file: and the drive
letter (short for "file://localhost/E:/download/start.htm").
                                Doug

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