Re: LYNX-DEV External filters (was: converting Pine addressbook

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:08:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)" <address@hidden>
> To: Nelson Henry Eric <address@hidden>
> 
> The only other variable I've thought of is the "magic" of prepping
> Lynx with the html header.  This must "do the right thing":
>   echo "Content-type: text/html"
>   echo
> 
> If your echo does not send a blank line, Lynx won't recognize the incoming
> stream as true html, and will punt. 

Eureka!!  My shell wants quotes.
   ` echo "" ' does the trick.  And now I can READ mail like never before.
          ^^
Thank you, Jim!

Others who will be trying this idea for reading mail folders with a lynxcgi,
you may want to keep Jim's way of setting the environment variable for the
path.  Shortcutting to ` ~/ ' didn't work for me, although ` ./ ' did.

__Henry
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