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Re: lynx-dev unable to connect to remote host


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: lynx-dev unable to connect to remote host
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 06:21:07 -0500 (EST)

990304 Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote: 
> I just downloaded and installed a binary Lynx 2.7.1 for AIX.
> My AIX version is 4.3.1.0

there may not be a more upto-date binary, but 2-7-1 is  2 years  old:
you should try compiling 2-8-1 from  www.slcc.edu/lynx/release .

> whenever I try to start lynx I get "unable to connect to remote host".
> This is not a network problem, because I can connect
> to any http site successfully using "telnet some.site.com 80".
 
the first thing is to check your startfile in  lynx.cfg :
if it's  lynx.browser.org/ , it may be off-line;
change it to a local file, which will get Lynx started.

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