Re: LYNX-DEV Who do you download from lynx on the road?

[Subir Grewal]

Please note the general Lynx distribution will not compile on a Mac,
there are separate Mac binaries listed at:

        http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/binaries.html

(as an aside, perhaps we should converse with the author of MacLynx Ol
Gutknecht on the possibility of bringing the MacLynx source into the
general Lynx distribution, perhaps before it diverges a whole lot.  This 
coming from someone who has no idea whether it's even possible.)

There are a number of ways you can download MacLynx to your computer.

If you are using PPP, you can use another browser (MacWeb, Netscape, etc.)
to go to the URL listed above, and download the MacLynx binary.

If you have an FTP client (Fetch) you can go to the following URL:

        ftp://ftp.unsw.edu.au/pub/mac/beta-sw/mac-lynx-b1-fat.bin

and download MacLynx.

If you do not have a web browser or an ftp client on your computer, but do
have a recent version of NCSA Telnet (or BetterTelnet), you can download
Lynx in the following manner: 

* Use Lynx on your ISP's computer (within a telnet session) to download a
  copy of MacLynx.
* MacLynx is now on your account on trfn.clpgh.  Quit Lynx and go back to
  the Unix prompt.
* Find the Edit --> Preferences menu in NCSA Telnet, and turn on the FTP
  server, with no passwords required.
* Go back to the trfn.clpgh Unix prompt and type a APPLE-F (hold down the
  apple key and type an F.
* This will open a FTP session from trfn.clpgh to your Mac (which is
  running the FTP server built into NCSA Telnet).
* Switch to binary transfer mode by typing "bin" at the ftp prompt.
* Transfer the file with the command "put maclynxbeta1.sit.bin"
* Once the transfer is over, quit ftp with the command "quit".

You should now have a copy of the Stuffit archive containing MacLynx in
your Hard Drive.

If you do not have PPP, but have a terminal communication software
(Zmodem, Kermit, MacTerm etc.) you can use it to connect to your ISP's
computer, launch Lynx, and use the DOWNLOADER defenitions to download to
the local machine using Kermit/Zmodem (most terminal packages have support
for one or both of these transfer protocols).

If you have any further questions, please contact me directly since your
query is only remotely related to the lynx-dev list.

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, jungle wrote:

:Dear Oh learned lynxians ( besides doug dave and jaun  thank you oh three
:wise men but you have no answers to enlighten me with). Running lynx on my
:own computer is a real super slow process "8mgz" system, Lets say you go to
:kinkos and you want to show your buddies how cool lynx is and they have
:telnet on their  mac machines and you telnet into trfn.clpgh to show them
:how rippin fast and furious lynx shreds. And one of your homeies says: hey
:dude how 'bout downloading me copy of lynx via kermit protocol through
:telnet. And all you can say is no can do! say what's up whit that, bogus
:deal holmes. As for it it being a mac thing, damn straight it a mac thing,
:Do I have to get some funky 286 dos machine to download my mac software
:with telnet from lynx. Is the telephone connection superior to the
:internet? No kermit for telnet?No http lynx to mac? Dail in analog? Holly
:molly byteman, I just want b&w text and data from the web is that too much
:to ask? Yo it is a lynx thing too, I guess i'll try e-mailling it to myself
:and if it works then I'll tell them first I ppp, then I telnet then I then
:i http: then I print the http file then I e-mail my self. If it works and I
:get the file fine, Can I get the  software stored in hqx http this way. The
:harder to get the better, especially if It is quite unusual.  yeah thats
:the ticket, totally convoluted but whatever works, all I know is  i ain't
:dailing  it on no bbs. Thanks for the e-mail lynx-dev. Is there anybody
:alive that can accomplish this or am I going to be the first person on
:earth to conquer MTN lynx with my Mac se, tally ho hip hip and
:cheers-jungle
:

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