Well Karen, as far as your wget question, I can suggest 2 things. First, if you
have some idea of what that item may be calle, you can run locate followed by
some word from that title. Another interesting way would be running lynx
followed by a dot. You will be browing which ever directory you a
Hi Karen: I can at least make 1 suggestion. When you get that suggested file
name, type a control+a to get to the beginning of that line, hit I think its a
control+u to clear that name, then type your replacement file name. I have
certainly expeienced similar, also times where only a capitalized
Hi Karen: While they have an accessibility statement, I am just intouch with a
help desk. I have another contact who I write when 1 of their apps stops
working.
Chime
OK Karen, I tried typing a newer password, but I had no luck, so she sent me a
rather long involved sequence. If Lynx were like Alpine I could import the
single line file in the password field.
Chime
Hi Karen: Also, thank you others, will read your comments soon. While I can
list an url, since you don't have an account, it wouldn't let you download any
media or transcripts.
www.dvidshub.net
I've been trading messages with them about their interface. If I just
try-and-login from the main site
Hi All: I realize it is not a great practice to use a same password for
everything, but so-far, even looking in a lynx manual, there seem no references
to saving site passwords. It would make certain sites a bit easier if they
already know who I am. Thanks so much in advance
Chime
Hi All: I suppose this is an off-the-wall inquiree, but lately as the New York
Times increased its pay wall-and-jacked up its javascript, I have alot less
access to either current stories or their rich archive. However, I had heard
they have a "dark web" site.
https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion
Well Arthur, I can play all files but not mkv. An only way is to either convert
or rename to another file extention. Certainly many files downloading from
youtube are dot mkv.
Chime
Sure Karen, I get the same button which I see quite often these days. I
certainly aplaud your efforts, but I think we non-graphical users lost the
battle maybe in 2008.. Hopefully tomorrow I will write you off-list about
Ny-Times.
Chime
Hi All: I am wondering if I can store user names-and-passwords for sites I
visit frequently? I think an only password item in the config deals with ftp
sites. Thanks so much in advance
Chime
Yes, thank you Karen, I like your explainer. Many other times I've written
them-and-not received any feedback, but I can try again.
Chime
Hi All: Several weeks ago Politico wrote-and-said because I am not opening
their mailings, they are going to free up space in my inbox. Well, yes, because
all Politico news-letters are much easier reading as html, I open them from
Alpine through Lynx. When I view an html file this way, am I read
Well, Chuck-and-All, I am subscribed to press advisories from NATO, but this
morning's item you had to visit their site to read or download a pdf.
More-and-more we see L I N K S works, while L Y N X has a 403 error, even after
fooling with a user-agent
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_2
Well Name, as DirectTV-and-U-Verse are part of the same family, I was just
pointing out how their newer platforms have it.
Chime
Well Jude, for me it just hangs, but it does work in L I N K S. While its great
they have accessibility in these devices, they say they will never have it in
AT&T U-Verse, as they will never build another box. I know this as I filed an
FCC complaint.
Chime
Well, I am not sure if only NANO has "search-and-replace"? I like some specific
options, so I alias nano -tzxk as I like cut from cursor, also suspend, which
they've made more of a challenge. And some items I put in a nanorc
Chime
Well, to my pleasant surprise, a newer version of LYNX showed up in my Debian
updates, this morning. The issue we talked about on Monday seems to have been
cleared up.
Lynx Version 2.9.0 (15 Jan 2024)
Thank you for fixing this.
Chime
Hi All: First of all, my append issue in print menu resumed working well later
or next day. Now on my main desktop console machine as well as a laptop, both
running different distros, many sites are just hanging for around 5 minutes.
This seems only in L Y N X. My main machine is in Debian SID,
Hi All: All-of-a-sudden my print menu, option6 append is broken. Now it hangs
after "printing file, please wait" Something like append to file. At that point
nothing will type except for controll+c. Even if I type a file name to append,
it won't save. I am useing the latest Debian SID
Lynx Vers
Well, last year I added a site-and-in the process, it nuked at least 4
consecutive items from my file. I really don't remember which automatic method
I used?
Chime
Hi All: Many times I am running lynx along with rdrview to get an article
without a toolbar. On my local machine I get symbols such as ~B @D. To see a
more normal view, I go in lynx options menu, search for utf, then arrow down to
assumed document charactor set. I want utf-8 for this one as wel
I wish they hadn't changed the bottom of the screen. With a screen-reader that
line is highlighted-and-before-and-back many years it either implied there were
more pages or you knew it was an only page.
Chime
Thank you Jude for those good ideas, however, I almost never use espeak, as I
am running Speakup with a DecTalk. Most times I only see those charactors when
useing rdrview.
Chime
Well, Jude, Speakup says they are tildas, along with a capital B and capital D.
Either way, how would I fix these? Thanks in advance
Chime
Well, `thank you so much. While I know for you, that was a simple solution, it
solved several major inconveniences. Seems each time I update and install
manually, I have similar issues. Anyway, looks as if all are back to nornal
again.
Unrelated, while I am here, I am useing rdrview with LYNX to
Well, Thomas-and-All, I seemingly ran a successful install, however a number of
my settings are gone. Looks like I am still useing a lynx.cfg of my own, but a
remapping of extern page-and-link are mentioned in errors. Also, viewing pages
with a "v" from Alpine didn't like "nested tables" But the
Hi Karen: 1 of my Linux experts setup Alpine with fastmail. But, no, because
fastmail is rather graphical, I cannot go in-and-ajust anything. Even my hosted
web-site, I have no idea of finding out a quota of space, so I upload a file,
if it completes, I am lucky.
Chime
Well Jude-and-All, with Fastmail, I can go through a process in Alpine with an
"s" for save, controll+t, I arrow down through folders until "spam training"
after that I go down again to "spam learn" Certainly spam asassin was alot less
complicated. Not only that, but there were white-and-black l
Well, Karen, I have had fastmail for some years, since that 4 day Shellworld
outage in May. Once fastmail is setup, it works well, but several functions in
their interface, you must use a graphical browser. I also have my web-site
hosted by them-and-they took away regular ncftp access, now I mus
Hi All: I have suspected this for a while. In both my own L Y N X machine as
well as Shellworld, I have items which either go away after adding a new
bookmark, or an actual link name is replaced with "hidden-link" In that case I
can still visit the site. Has any1 else ever had this happen-and-ar
Well, Russell, that is certainly a shaim. Yesterday I visited punchbowlnews.com
and no-matter which browser, I get a 403 error, but even checking or unchecking
a user-agent, I receive the message you experienced.
Chime
Hi All: Well, when my google news alert for "cuban missile crisis" sent me to
this article, I am noticing only L Y N X cannot get there. I first get a 403
error, but then if I fool with a user-agent, it says something like, please
enable javascript. Well, both e links, links, and w3m can all rea
Well, Ron, at lest in Debian Linux, I can type
lynx .
and see an index from my current directory, but I haven't understood windows in
a `long time, since they replaced a familliar desktop with windows explorer.
Chime
Thank you Tomas. That .h2 item was not in my lynx.cfg, so I pasted in your
instructions. But after that, can I define a command for deleting files?
Exactly what belongs in that file, so I can act on an alias? As I mentioned
last evening, del is aliased to
/usr/bin/trash-put
Thanks so much in ad
Hi All: After several accidental deletions of file I wish I had again, I had a
set of great advice on another blind Linux list. There are at least 2 trash
programs which work quite well. So I have a "del" aliased to
/usr/bin/trash-put. However, when I am viewing a local directory from LYNX, if
I remember an odd case where there was art work in an mp3 file, which locked my
system until it was finished playing. While I couldn't even change consoles,
some1 from the outside could kill a process. I vaguely remember these mp3s were
somehow playing in vlc.
Chime
Well, Travis, will take a look. Whats fascinating, I can rename an mkv to an
mp4, now it will play in LYNX. Here are entries in lynx.cfg
SUFFIX:.mkv:audio/mkv
SUFFIX:.mkv:video/mkv
SUFFIX:.mp4:video/mpeg
Now here are items in dot mailcap
audio/mkv; mpv --really-quiet --audio-device=alsa/plughw:C
Hi All: Seems almost all other audio-and-video file types I can launch
LYNX-and-have them play with mpv. However, .mkv files seemingly will not
launch, they act like I wanna download, even though they are already on my
hard-drive. Thanks so much in advance for any tips.
Chime
Hi Mouse: Another aspect of Karen's comments was about that cryptic "no form
action defined" or something about bad html.
Chime
Well Karen, almost all of the time there is a Broadcasting site where they post
airchecks. In many cases I need to run an external in LYNX to grab a youtube
video. In general I would say word press sites are messy.
Chime
Well Jindam, OK you have 2 bookmarks.. I would hit enter while highlighting an
item. There are also ways of going directly to a selected bookmark.
Chime
I completely agree with Karen. Even on my home machine, just visiting
duckduckgo.com I reach the light version, where link 2 is a search field-and-3
is submitt.
Chime
Hi Karen: All I know is CloudFront is related with Amazon. And thank you, I
will try-and-contact dvids support about Lynx as well as an IP address.
Chime
Hi All: This seems to be happening more than I would like! Nearly every day I
visit
www.dvidshub.net
All was fine until maybe last Wednesday when I began seeing an error 403, but
even unchecking a user-agent didn't help, as I saw a Coud Front error. I did
contact dvids support, who asked for a
Well, Travis, don't you love it when even when you view a news-letter as html,
they still write-and-say "you haven't opened an e-mail in a long time"? Like,
who are they kidding?
Chime
Thank you Karen for a tarific article. 2 things jump out at me. First, in none
of those interviews do they mention which browsers are being used, but I
imagine they would be all graphical or in windows? 2nd, the requirement to
include javascript. Obviously we know, for us, who enjoy L Y N X, thi
Well Dan-and-All, another option would be saving an rss file-and-running it
through urlview
Chime
Well, I `much prefer L Y N X as I understand its print/save menu. I am forever
saving news articles or useing a LYNX external to download youtube items. I
find an e l i n k s type of menu agrivating.
Chime
Hi Karen-and-All: An a would just append not over-write. Right now, given that
choice, I say "no" then I think its control+g to cancel.
Chime
Well, Karen, I certainly agree, figuring out some seemless way of processing
sites would be wonderful. I mean as we've discussed on this list, there are
sites I go to nearly each day which have that 403 error, so I either run an L Y
N X external or just see a blank page-and-go in an options menu
Well, thanks Karen, I've always had issues understanding links and elinks.
Meanwhile, I did finally have some success the long way around. I ran wget with
that url, changed the name from index.html.1 to gri.html. Then I ran rdrview -b
lynx gri.html which gave me a clear 52 lines of an article w
Thank you David for your analysis. Since I really have little understanding of
user agent strings, is their anything specific I can type in L Y N X to process
this article, which I not only want to save the text of, but eventually explore
what else is there? Thanks so much in advance
Chime
Hi All: 1 of my google news-alerts pointed me to an article which first gave me
a 403 error, but even after ajusting an option for user agent, still says
"cannot connect" This does work in elinks, also LINKS, and w3m. However, what
else I am not understanding. In w3m there are maybe 171 lines on
Well, maybe best of both worlds, y/n/a for append.
Chime
Hi All: I really like-and-use alot of capitol C to change directories while
saving items. Considering LYNX is aware if I type a directory wrong or one
which is not there, it will say "no such dir" Would it be possible to add
tab-completion? For the record, I am in tcsh. Thanks so much in advance
Well Dan, while I have had a slight increase in these as well, what about an
option of "partial loading of pages"? Usually before I try a controll+c I hit a
z.
Chime
Actually Karen, once I alter the setting, I can view the site fine just for the
cuttent session, so at least for now its a work around.
Chime
Well, Karen, I agree with you about possible differences in the files. I ran an
exec tcsh which is similar to re-logging in. I could try an unalias. My own
machine is still having an issue with that site, even trying to change an
option in lynx.cfg.
Chime
Well, Karen, I was about to think you were correct. I tried switching an option
in my LYNX to html, exited, and went back to that site, no changeThanks
Chime
Well, Karen-and-Luke, that radio tapes site has not changed for me on
Shellworld, I still need to type lynx.old But yes, I have had my own lynx.cfg
since I joined Shellword. Certainly glad Karen's sites are working well now.
Chime
So Dan, yes, I have my own file, so what specificly would I put in there for
that site? Would it be a rule? Thanks in advance
Chime
Hi Karen-and-All: As always the LYNX options menu acts like it will save, even
when checking that box on link4 "save options to disk" but in this case it did
not save.
Chime
Well, I took a look in an options menu in an older LYNX on Shellworld, where
that particular setting is not there at all. On my Debian system with a current
LYNX, I can switch over to html-and-yes I can enjoy that page.
Chime
Thank you Mouse for examining. I did write my contact at that site. At the time
I figured it had changed recently, but actually it were the LYNX changes on
Shellworld. I remember there was a site back maybe 2008 or so which I had to
switch to the source-code-and-back to regular view-and-it would
Hi All: I still use Shellworld, as well as my own Debian setup. Funny thing is
I visit
www.radiotapes.com
On my machine I only see raw html. Meanwhile
with an older LYNX on Shellworld, I see the site fine,
I have no idea why these 2 versions are seeing this site so differently? Thanks
so much
Hi Karen: If you want to try a rehash, you would need to type
tcsh
then type rehash. Then to get back to your familliar shell, type
exit
Hope those will help
Chime
Hi Karen: Aliases in Linux are no more a risk than writing or running a batch
file in DOS, just a short cut to save an amount of typing.
Chime
Hi Travis: I am in TCSH, so I thought to type
rehash
now Lynx is back again.
Chime
Hi Travis: Whats really interesting is that last I looked, L Y N X seems to be
gone from Shellworld, whether I use an alias or even type
which lynx
says "command not found"
I am fortunate that mostly I just use Shellworld for rss feeds, a majority of
mail I deal with locally.
Chime
Hi Dan-and-All: I have been on 1 of those shells where an admin did help config
either custome settings or additional software. With all levels of experience,
this admin was rather helpful to many of us.
Chime
Good Evening Rudy: So could I use a similar script on a per-site basis for
those where I get a 403 error, such as radio-insight.com? Thanks in advance
Chime
Well, just like back in July, this whole ssl thing has bit me again. After
reading Jude-and-Tomas replies, I ran their options, but then I noticed when
running
which lynx
on consoles which were run after a "rehash" says /usr/local/bin/lynx. Meanwhile
other consoles here in TCSH Debian Sid say /
Thank you Jude, sure is in there.
But I guess as my database is not updating, I must run from that directory.
Chime
Jude, I am fairly sure I did, but will run it again.
When running "sudo updatedb" I get an "/usr/bin/find: '/var/lib/lxcfs/cgroup':
Input/output error"
Wow, never seen it run this long. /usr/bin/find: '/mnt/temp': Input/output
error
updatedb: new database would be empty
Running sudo locate y
Well Dan, I used pip to install your program, but it seems not here in Debian
SID? Even running a locate, I couldn't find it. Thanks in advance
Chime
Well, Jude, little did I remember, we had installed pipe-viewer. Just tried it
now, received a 410 error. Problem I had with straw-viewer, an amount of
results were strange, inn that the 2nd group of items were exactly from the
first group. So if there were 34 items, the first 17 would list twic
Hi Jude-and-All: Jude, first of all, I am not familliar with "pipe-viewer"?
I've tried straw-viewer-and-I use youtube-viewer several times a day. What does
pipe-viewer off that youtube-viewer isn't giving you? In relation to the
original question, there were at 1 time some accessibile web-sites
Hi Karen-and-All: Did you try controll+c? Thanks
Chime
Well, Karen-and-All, Shellworld seems to be on 2.8.9 dev 6 meanwhile in my
Debian SID I am on 2.9.0 dev 9
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Well, a fairly easy ./configure make sudo mak install
After that, did a rehash now --version displays current number.
Big surprise, if I visit an https site first says something about external
page and external link fail. Then
Using https://www.npr.org/
Alert!: This client does not contain su
Another aspect which makes it more challenging to get a hold of site owners, in
the last 3 years or so "whois" most of the time will not display an actual
contact address. Many times when I had a good reason, I was able to write an
owner when their contact form was less than adequate.
Chime
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Well Dan, I completely agree. Seemingly no other browsers that I know of have
this issue. In the mean time I can suggest creating an external when you run in
to such a sight. Sometimes even if you check the box in options to change it,
you can still receive a 403 error.
Chime
Well Thorsten, these are either news-letters I am signed up to or items I
receive in Alpine, which I view in LYNX as its a smoother read.
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Hi Tim: Glad you received that sample. Also, thanks for your analysis. I also
bounced that over to Shellworld, but reading over there, instead of a missing
beginning letter, there is an a beginning a word. Both sequences are anoying.
Thanks
Chime
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Hi Tim: Well, short of bouncing or forwarding my next Politico news-letter your
way? Anyway, I am in Debian SID in Linux.
lynx is already the newest version (2.9.0dev.6-2).
You can just imagine how anoying it would be to cut-and-paste an article with
these sort of inconsistancies.
Chime
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Well Thorsten, this goes beyond Politico. Here are 2lines from a story in
Hollywood Reporter. Notice a w is missing from the first word, also what
finishes line2
hat is a big deal. It is a big deal to the city of Boston, it is a big deal
to the United States, it is a big deal for Black and b
Well, this seems strange? On my local machine running the latest Debian
Lynx2.9.0 dev6. When reading sites such as Politico, many times a first letter
of aword is missing. Many times this surrounds a bracketed link, but more
often, its a first word of a line. Speakup seems to realize there is a
Speaking of saving files, when folks send dropbox files, once LYNX become
involved, only the first word of a title shows up. So I manually type in the
rest of it.
And 1 more anoyance. When downloading audio from NPR, the file names have alot
of seemingly randem number-and-letters. So I backspace
Well Travis, an only major difference seems to be "more" keeps you in the file
once its over, while "less" sends you back to a prompt. Man-pages seem to run
"more"
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Wouldn't an orriginal author in this thread actually mean storing a
username/password in a LYNX config? Not sure but I think an only password
fields are involved with ftp sites?
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Hi Karen: When I try that refresh link, I get a 503 error with a
certifikit from that blocking service.
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Well, first of all, Karen, w3m is another text browser, but seldom have I
ever had a site only work in it. We certainly have it on shellworld, but
while there are certainly ways of configuring so you can tab around, I
don't think you can number links.
Now for at least 1year there is a site which
Well Rob, would running an url through a LYNX external solve your issue,
or running the site through "urlview" which seems to grab urls out of the
source-code.
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Hi All: There are at least 3 sites I visit frequently where I receive an
anoying 403 error. So each time I go in options and uncheck the user agent
box. Can some1 please inform, can I set these on a per site basis? 2 of
the sites involved,
radioinsight.com
Meanwhile
nationalinterest.org
That on
Wow Karen, that looks tricky. Sure link 12 is "recently played" but then
link 96 is an option list, what some call a drop down, so you can select
todays date from the list. Problem is the next link is javascript. There
didn't seem to even be a place to force a submit. An only idea I have, if
yo
Well, it seemed the later in the bookmarks file, the more entries it were
off by. So since I am in Linux, I just edit with NANO, go to the beginning
of a line and delete.
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Hi All: Well, now that it seems an `extreme number of sites have their
printer friendly articles hidden in some sort of javascript, a good friend
imformed me that Safari has a reader mode which strips all clutter,
including toolbars. Wondering if something like that would be possible in
Lynx? A
Well Russ-and-All, there are 2 other alternative solutions which work for
myself. #1 I would grab the latest version of Trizen's program,
youtube-viewer which you can run from a commandline with a user or
keyword. You receive a numbered list of results to download directly.
#2 Setup youtube-view
Hi Claudio: Just an opinion, but I think an Internet culture has gone far
past our favorite friendly browsers. Yes its rather inconvenient when
traveling to one of these sites with a 403 error, then having to go in an
options menu and uncheck the user agent box, before submitting. Sure thats
an
Well, while I cannot help with the core dump, I can suggest a couple of
options about those mp2 files. You would probably need an entry in your
mime types file so they handle them in a way you are used to. Next, at
least for now, just highlight the file-and press a d to begin saving. When
its f
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