Re: lynx-dev add bookmarks problem

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Hmm, I should warn you first: this advice might be totally useless to you.
I'm using MacLynx under the MacOS, but I did have some trouble with
bookmarks at first.

Is the statusline alert; "Unable to access file!", or; "Unable to write to
file!"?

Two notes:
A)-I'm assuming lynx.cfg is kept in the same directory as the Lynx executable.
B)-I'm also assuming bookmarks are kept in the same place.

In lynx.cfg, you'll see;
"DEFAULT_BOOKMARK_FILE:lynx_bookmarks.html".
Note that no file-PATH is specified, just the file-name.  Try using only
the name; "lynx_bookmarks.html" in your O)ptions settings instead of
"c:\lynx\lynx_bookmarks.html".

If that one fails, you can try a full URL, like;
"file://localhost/c:/lynx/lynx_bookmarks.html"
or;
"file://localhost/~/lynx_bookmarks.html"

I don't know if the tilde shortcut -- signifying the Lynx folder or default
login directory -- works on PC either.  Probably does though.

By the way, when I tried putting my bookmark files in a subdirectory, and
referencing them as "DEFAULT_BOOKMARK_FILE:bmarx/lynx_bookmarks.html" [and
all other permutations on filepath syntax], MacLynx couldn't find these
files.  You might not be able to put your bookmarks in a subdirectory
either.

Anyway, that seems to work at this end.  Hope it does for you too.


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                    Patrick
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