lynx-dev AIX Y2K upgrade problem

[Philip Webb]

990128 Clair Wilson wrote: 
> We have AIX 3.25 running on an rs6000.
> Lynx has been working great for years.
> Recently I upgraded aix with IBM's year 2000 updates
> As soon as I did that, we could no longer use lynx.
> Every time we try to access a remote site, we get message :
> "Alert!:  Unable to connect to remote host"
> I upgraded lynx from 2.5 to 2.8 in hopes that the problem might be solved.

the latest Lynx is 2-8-1 from  www.slcc.edu/lynx/release :
2-8 is  c 1 year  out-of-date; that probably isn't your problem,
but in practice Lynx volunteers support only the latest version.

> However, that had no effect. It appears one of the fixes
> which got applied to aix from IBM's y2k fix tape caused this problem.
> All were successfully applied and appear to have made aix y2k compliant.
> Has anyone else experienced this problem ?
> Does anyone know what I might do in order to make lynx useable again ?

AFAIK this hasn't been mentioned to lynx-dev before.
can you use other browsers to get to remote sites?
   
> Ellen had a similar problem quite a while ago;
> We run lynx on an IBM RS6000 machine running AIX 3.2.5.
> After we applied IBM PTF U444171 and subsequently re-booted
> (since this PTF hit the kernel), lynx stopped functioning.
> The message it gives is: Alert!:  Unable to connect to remote host.
> lynx: Can't access start file http:/www.upenn.edu/

of course, that needs another slash:  http://www.upenn.edu/ ;
Lynx won't start if it can't find the start file,
so check you have something accessible in  lynx.cfg .
 
try those  2  suggestions & maybe someone else here can help further,
but the problem may be in your system & communications, not Lynx.

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