Re: lynx-dev reading news

[Gene Collins]

Any thoughts on why ftp and news urls are broken under the DOS
Lynx_386 version?

>On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Eugene I. Ostrenski wrote:
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>>    I use MS-DOS based Lynx version 2.8 1 dev 1. When I type "news:*"; at the
>> command line  diagnose "ICMP:port unreachable" is appeared.
>
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>The DOS port doesn't support news: or ftp: URLs, unless you have a proxy
>available. If you have another news program, you can use the EXTERNAL
>mechanism. This isn't the usual error message, however. Are you using
>the Win32 port or the DOS port? The first part of this reply applies
>only to the DOS port, not the Win32 port.
>                                   Doug
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