Re: lynx-dev Is there any way to Turn Off Certain Status Messages?

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

In the Lynx.cfg there are 3 values.  They are MESSAGESECS, 
INFOSECS and ALERTSECS.  They 
determine how long messages appear on the status line, and 
adjusting them can be particularly helpful for users of braille 
displays.   I haven't tried this, but am told that if you set one of 
these variables to 0, that class of messages is not displayed at all.  

On Lynx/386 and Lynx/32, I don't use BIOS screen output at all with 
Vocal-Eyes.  Instead, I set a hyperactive window which reads the 
status line whenever the first four character positions change on that 
line.  I run Lynx in Intermediate user mode, because I don't want to 
hear URL's all the time.   


On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:44:12 -0500, 
Martin McCormick   <address@hidden> wrote:

>        I am using Lynx Version 2.8rel.2 (1998) which I installed on a
>Sun Sparc Ultra.  Is there any way to make it less verbose in telling
>me what it is doing?  I am blind and use a speech synthesizer on the
>P.C. which accesses this system so as far as the UNIX side is
>concerned, I am running a VT100 terminal.  What I want to be able to
>turn off are messages that appear briefly while a new link is being
>traversed.  In other words, unless there is a problem, I don't want to
>hear messages like:
>
>
>Getting http://www.dalsemi.com/Looking up www.dalsemi.com.
>Making HTTP connection to www.dalsemi.com.
>Sending HTTP request.
>HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
>Read 205 bytes of data.
>1.0 200 OK
>Read 1460 of 5998 bytes of data.
>Data transfer complete
>
>        These messages are sent on the status line and constantly
>overwritten so I simply captured the data stream for illustration
>purposes.
>
>        As problems go, this one is _WAY_ down on the list.  The only
>reason I am asking is that the documentation says that one can call
>lynx as in lynx -status to suppress status messages.  When I do that,
>there is no change that I can tell.
>
>        This is an excellent browser and nobody should take what I am
>saying as a gripe.  I wonder if I am not doing something correctly or
>what.
>
>        I am not subscribed to this list so please reply directly to
>me.  Also, how do I subscribe?  Thanks to all.
>
>Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
>OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group
>

-- Lloyd Rasmussen
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