Re: lynx-dev Re: STARTFILE patch

[Philip Webb]

990414 Leonid Pauzner wrote: 
> 14-Apr-99 14:36 Henry Nelson wrote:
>> I sincerely believe that the default for STARTFILE should remain
>> "http://lynx.browser.org/";.
-- quote from KW's discussion snipped --
> Agree with Henry.
 
but you quoted KW: he & HN have quite different views
& yours were different again, ie to use the Main Help Page.

can we please get serious?
HN turns up once in a long while with loud advice for everyone,
but he's very rarely around to answer all those anguished users
who suddenly can't get Lynx to start
& can't even hit `h'elp because Lynx won't start
& can't check  lynx.cfg  because they don't know what it is
& can't get thro' to their always over-worked sysadmin:
THEY are the people who call in here needing down-to-earth advice.
the way to help them is to make the STARTFILE default something local
& i agree with LP (on further thought) that the Main Help Page is best;
alternatively, KW's URL for the user's home directory would be ok.

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