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Re: lynx-dev Help for a total newbie


From: Mada
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Help for a total newbie
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:25:17 -0800

Hello, 

Thanks very much for your help, especially to Lloyd Rasmussen -- I
have taken your advice and will download from the source w/the
precompiled version - somehow I downloaded the more advanced
'source code'. I will have many questions in the future - I will
try not to become a bother and would like to give everyone my
thanks. 

-Mada


At 09:55 AM 12/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>-- Lloyd Rasmussen
>Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
>National Library Service for the  Blind and Physically Handicapped
>Library of Congress          202-707-0535
>(work)       address@hidden    http://www.loc.gov/nls/
>(home) address@hidden http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/lras/      
>

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