Re: LYNX-DEV Local Lynx for DOS or Win3.1?

[Wayne Buttles]

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, DR. JUAN-CARLOS LERMAN wrote:

> >     This is true.  The DOS port requires some sort of networking
> >     code -- even if you just want to access local files.  I know
> >     that sounds like a silly requirement and like it should be 
> >     simple to program around.  However, that doesn't seem to be the
> >     case.  It would apparently take alot of work to make a 
> >     "non-network" enabled Lynx browser.
> 
> I'm glad I've never read this before. Beginning with the alpha DOSLYNX
> from Kansas U, up to the current Bobcat, the binary codes I installed 
> were just 'plug and play,' for local files.

It is true that lynx_386 needs a fake packet driver.  The tcp stack from
doslynx and bobcak has a dummy mode which AFAIK the djgpp tcp doesn't.
Just use the one in the driver directory along with the -localhost
command so you don't get caught accidently trying to go remote.

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