LYNX-DEV Using Lynx on the server side

[Kristin McNally]

I have recently been given the task lf deciding whether the Lynx browser
could fill a need that has come up at work.  Since I don't know very
much about the browser itself, I thought I should investigate before
giving my boss an answer. 

Here is the problem:

Currently, my company receives input from a "dumb" vt100 terminal via a
telephone line and that data is then sent to a database for safe
keeping.  Currently the application that handles the interface for the
vt100 terminal uses .txt files for retrieveing the appropriate menus and
sends data back to the data base as streams of characters.  But now, my
company wants to give access to these "menus' via the www as well.  What
they would like to do is have ONE SET of html documents that represent
the menus for collecting data and somehow make them work on the "dumb"
vt100 terminals.

Is is possible to set up Lynx on the server side and have it handle
multiple com ports dialing into it and redirecting its output to the
vt100 terminals?

Be advised that on the server side, the os will be NT 4.0, meaning that
lynx will have to run as a console application, which gives great
restriction for accessing or redirecting std i/o.

Any help or suggestions to this problem will be greatly appreciated.

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Kristin McNally
MOON Communications
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