Re: lynx-dev lynx_help.diff.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:10:39AM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> Attached are a few updates (mostly URLs) for some files in
> lynx_help.
> 
> Some comments:
> 
> 1-
> http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/News/Groups/Overview.html
> now redirects to http://www.w3.org/History/ . I don't know if
> the new contents are the same as the old.

probably not - I recall looking at that & thinking something must be missing.
But I was not familiar with the original page.
 
> I added 3 search engines: AlltheWeb.com, Ask.com, and Teoma.
> 
> 2 others don't seem to work anymore.
> 
> http://www.excite.com/ - "The browser you're using is not
> allowing you to sign in to Excite."
> 
> http://www.lycos.com/ - "text/vnd.wap.wml  D)ownload, or
> C)ancel"

Which one (excite or lycos)?  I get equivalent treatment from both with
lynx/elinks/w3m.  But I didn't try creating an account.
 
> Funny that it works with ELinks and the Google cache -
> http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:S_gFY0kncXgJ:www.lycos.com/+lycos&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

I would suppose that's because it bypasses something.
 
> You may want to remove them if they don't work anymore with
> Lynx, but what's wrong with the latter ?
> 
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