Re: lynx-dev Help for a total newbie

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

Are you trying to install from source code, as you would find from 
slcc.edu, or are you working with a precompiled lynx.exe from a place 
like www.fdisk.com/lynxport ?  For newbies, the second is the better 
option.  The batch file which comes with Lynx_32 assumes some paths 
that are probably not correct on your computer.  I think you could get 
started by going to a DOS box, changing directories to where Lynx.exe 
exists (probably lynx_32), then running Lynx.  When you first install 
Lynx from lynx_32.zip, you should let the ZIP extractor program create 
subdirectories under the Lynx_32 directory.   You will soon want to 
change the 
  startfile:    option in lynx.cfg to point to home page you will 
frequently use,  I start from a bookmark file previously created with 
other versions of Lynx on other computers.  Doing it that way, I 
don't have to have dial-up networking dial out until I really need 
something.  

I'm sure you will have more questions.  Please write back; I use 
Lynx_32 because it works very well with screen reading programs and 
speech synthesizers for DOS.  
 
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 17:06:16 -0800, 
Mada   <address@hidden> wrote:

>Hello, 
>
>I'm hoping some of you that are more experienced w/this can help me
>out - I am trying to install Lynx on my computer w/ OSR2. It has me
>baffled. I cannot seem to understand the doc's included with the
>archive, although I have tried over and over. Is there a simple
>tutorial on the web for newbies like myself? I find most of what
>goes on here to be way over my head. 
>
>Thanks for your patience, 
>Mada

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