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Re: lynx-dev Lynx Help for Beginners
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Roger Hill |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx Help for Beginners |
Date: |
Sat, 4 Jul 1998 18:11:56 -0400 (GMT+4) |
On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Philip Webb wrote:
> *** NBB *** i have changed the name of the file to lhfb.html :
> ie goto http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/lhfb.html .
>
> please everyone, have a look & tell me if anything is inaccurate
Minor nits:
Numbered links:
* You can number the links in each document:
enter `o' for Options, then `k' for Keypad Mode.
* If links are numbered, you can get a document just by entering
its link number: eg `123' takes you straight to URL [123];
* you can simply move the hilite to a link
without downloading the document by entering eg `123g' ;
* `123p' takes you to the top of page 123 in the current document.
you can goto the top of document page 123 by entering `123p' .
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not needed?
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* You can enter any URL following `g': yes, you do need to include
`http://' (or another appropriate starter), which tells Lynx
what type of access is required for the distant site; Lynx may try
to guess if you omit part of the URL (eg `www.' or `.ca').
Not quite true: I can simply type 'g', then www.foo.com, and it goes
to http://www.foo.com
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How to escape from things:
* `q' exits Lynx, but prompts first;
* `Q' exits without a prompt; `^d' is an emergency exit;
* `^z' suspends Lynx, going to the original shell;
in UNIX, `fg' returns to Lynx;
On my Linux system, ^C is an immediate exit too.
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* You can access `https' sites using Lynx, but you need SSLeay
& must compile in SSL patches; there are strict restrictions
if you live in the USA & looser rules apply if you live in Canada.
Or you can set up the lxp proxy on a firewall (Subir's pages had a link to
it at one time: don't know if it still does) and access https without
patching Lynx. And the restrictions vary if you are in neither of the USA
nor Canada.
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* Images can be downloaded using Lynx; you can also compile Lynx
to use a viewer like xv, if you have the necessary system access.
I might be wrong here.. I thought that this was a lynx.cfg option, not
necessarily a compile option.
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Other than that: EXCELLENT! Good job.
Roger
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