Re: lynx-dev Question: specify a local file

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:30:24 +0100, 
address@hidden  <address@hidden> wrote:

>Hope I hit the right forum for a question like this=2E If not, please accep=
>t my=20=
>apologies, I do not know where else to post it=2E
>

This is the right place.  Using a DOS copy of Lynx, if I want the root 
directory of my E: drive and I am logged onto C:, the URL of the root 
directory is
  file://localhost/e:/
  It is true that this is incompatible with the Windows browsers' 
nomenclature.  I think there are other forms which will also work, but 
this is a starting point.  The key is the localhost part.  The 
developers can give you a better explanation, and this is being 
changed from time to time as people work on the Wintel ports.


>Environment: Lynx 2=2E8 on Windows NT 4=2E0=2E
>
>I need to fire up Lynx with a local HTML-coded file specified on the 
>command=20=
>line=2E
>I can acomplish the operation it on my OpenVMS system, but run into 
>problems=20=
>on Windows=2E
>The problem is is how to code the file:xxx=2Ehtm specification to suit Lynx=2E
>
>The local filespec in Windows is something like:  E:\download\start=2Ehtm
>(which is _not_ the Lynx home directory)=2E
>
>But how exactly do I specify that in Lynx, so it can start crawling from=20=
>there?
>The URL shown in MS Internet Explorer does not seem to be understood by Lynx=2E
>
>/Magnus

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