Stefan Caunter dixit:
>functionality will be there.
ISTR it's disabled in the default upstream lynx.cfg though...
//mirabilos
--
Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the
Kristopher Kycia dixit:
>Anybody here remember the GOOD OLD DAYS?
AFAICT, Lynx on Win32 uses cp437 as itâs a console programme.
You should try setting that in the (O)ptions menu. Maybe try
some other codepage, maybe the system menu (of the window)
has an option.
You should also verify that the
Kristopher Kycia dixit:
>> AFAICT, Lynx on Win32 uses cp437 as itâs a console programme.
>
> Tried it, it works. Thanks.
Sure, no problem.
>> By the way, UTF-8 is the standard these daysâ¦
>
> Not for DOS.
Yes, I know. (In fact, I disassembled and patched a large part of
the DOS kernel⦠a
h...@tbbs.net dixit:
>>>>> 2010/02/03 21:48 +, Thorsten Glaser >>>>
.oO(weird quoting style)
>I think there is no such thing as locales on either DOS or Win32.
>Heck, even OpenBSD anno 2010 doesnb<<<<<<<< But under Windows there is
Hi,
annoying behaviour: (assume 80x24 terminal for this example)
$ lynx
g http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#otheros
activate one of the links, such as [143]mksh spell
And you're up at #otheros again, instead of the page after it.
I consider this an annoying usability bug.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
Wayne M. Lodahl dixit:
>CON: Rewriting C source code to Java
Try the NDK.
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use
Ed Hurst dixit:
> To wit:
>
Ah, fun, I had the same with recently, but in some
coloured browser (Konqueror, IIRC).
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
ksh93 in that re
Larson, Timothy E. dixit:
>[...]
You cut off too much.
>../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTUtils.h:711:17: ssl.h: No such file or
>directory
You need OpenSSL installed.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But
Dario dixit:
>Lynx 2.8.7rel.1 can't stay logged in on Slashdot.
Slashdot stopped being lynx compatible some time ago.
I stopped reading Slashdot approximately then ☺
bye,
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it turns
Patrick dixit:
>On other systems, Lynx uses the command's full name.
>
>DOWNLOADER:Open with Mousepad:mousepad %s:TRUE
For the record:
DOWNLOADER:View in less:less -f '%s':FALSE
DOWNLOADER:Spawn editor:"${VISUAL-${EDITOR-ed}}" '%s':FALSE
Useful for things like .m3u from webradios, when you just
Hi,
as far as I can see, the and tags contain something that
could be made into a hyperlink to the actual multimedia content by a
browser (to be downloaded and used with for example mplayer).
Did anyone think of it already? Otherwise Iâll append it to my TODO,
which unfortunately doesnât ge
David Woolley dixit:
> I tend to ignore HTML5 as I think it has totally lost the original spirit of
Yeah, same here. Iâm currently wishing for an HTML/4.10 which would be
the same as XHTML/1.1 except these Ruby annotations, and without the
XML component (basically a subset of HTML/4.01 and XHTM
Hi,
can't the cookie jar have an option to change the expiry time on
cookies? This would be especially useful to stay logged in on
sites that use session cookies, not persistent ones (for those,
you can basically edit ~/.etc/cookies.txt to raise the expiry
time), but I can imagine turning persiste
Picilli dixit:
> Is it actually possible to publish a text to a web forum with Lynx (with or
> without external editors) with indentations and paragraphs? If yes, please how
Yes. Use a better webforum – it depends on them. Also, try hitting
Enter twice, i.e. leave a newline between paragraphs.
H
Curt Sayers dixit:
>i am attempting to install and run lynx2-8-7.
>The current OS i have is Debian
sudo apt-get install lynx-cur
This should help, although it’s the packaged version, which appears
to have been patched, and unfortunately links against GnuTLS ☹
HTH & HAND,
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I
MarkA dixit:
> RE: IBM PC-XT, NEC V30 8086, DRDOS 6.0, Bobcat versions 01 through 08.
Impressive. I also have DR DOS lying around here, but didn’t have any
network back when I used DOS exclusively… (Internet came late here).
Lynx 2-4-2 based õÕ
> What I've noticed with all tested Bobcat versions
Tom Christiansen dixit:
>libwww-FM 2.14, ncurses 5.7.20081102
Use ncursesw instead. On MirBSD, this fixed the problem, and my friend
who’s a Fink maintainer confirmed that for Darwin.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it
when God enli
Tom Christiansen dixit:
>But the problem continued to occur--at least on Darwin; haven't
I’ll have a look (not now, it’s 2 o’clock in the night). OpenBSD
doesn’t do Unicode, don’t bother with it, I wrote all of the sup-
port code myself for MirBSD.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
I believe no one can inven
Tom Christiansen dixit:
>My test case is to run
>
>$ ~/lynx2-8-8/lynx -width=80 -display_charset=utf-8 \
> -assume_local_charset=utf-8 -dump test.html > test.utf8
Since you didn’t specify one, I wrote one myself.
>Looking at test.utf8 in less(1) with LESSCHARSET set to UTF-8 reveals
>t
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> So - it's a link, to someplace, and the guideline says it's not to be followed
> as if it were an href. So that leaves inline display, or some special
> keystroke.
No idea. The XHTML/1.1 DTD says:
So it’s still allowed and, apparently, of same type as src.
bye,
//mirabi
This is a more than serious bug (possible disclosure of passwords,
definitive disclosure of privacy), if lynx does this out of the box:
15:32⎜ uh
15:32⎜ Nov 10 15:07:15 desktop-tk lynx[4685]: Session start
15:32⎜ when did lynx start logging all of its session to
syslog?
15:33⎜ including all URLs
FWIW, we got it.
16:09⎜ ~> which lynx
16:09⎜ lynx: aliased to noglob command lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc
16:09⎜ when I run "command lynx", it doesn't log to syslog
16:09⎜ ah
16:09⎜ so, the -cfg= seems to override /etc/**/lynx.cfg
16:09⎜ yes
16:10⎜ but the .lynxrc doesn't contain anything about syslog
log
Patrick dixit:
>not .lynxrc . The two files have different formats, and
Yeah, good question…
//mirabilos
--
I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it
when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them.
If you don't believe in God, just
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:22:23 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>>> It is the default in the Debian version enabled in 2.8.6-5
>>> at Mon, 18 Oct 2004. AFAIK grml uses the Debian package.
Yes, it does. Setting -cfg=* also seems
Jos� H. Espinosa dixit:
> I'm the maintainer of Lynx on Fink and I can assure you that lynx on the Mac
> is
> alive and kicking.
When built from the MirPorts Framework, Lynx also works fine
on the Macintosh, under OS X.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or
Severity: critical
t...@blau:~ $ tar xzf /Distfiles/lynx2.8.8dev.7.tar.gz
t...@blau:~ $ cd lynx2-8-8
t...@blau:~/lynx2-8-8 $ autoconf-2.13
autoconf: Undefined macros:
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_CC
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** A
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf-2.52-20101002.tgz
Ouch.
$ diff -pruN autoconf-2.52 autoconf-2.52-20101002 | wc
14193 70606 587233
You don’t really expect me to try a manual interdiff between
th
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> fixed (so it works with 2.13). See
>
> ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.8dev.7a.patch.gz
Thanks, will look at that RSN. On autoconf, I somewhat
agree; I currently keep some more versions (2.13 original,
2.13 with your patches, and 2.51-2.62, most of them with
your pa
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> fixed (so it works with 2.13). See
>
> ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.8dev.7a.patch.gz
Thanks, WFM. Note, lynx.cfg misses BAD_HTML and has a key twice.
https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/lynx/lynx.cfg
(but only after the rsync job run, will be a bit).
Hi,
I’ve been wondering to make the attached example file more useful.
I think the first paragraph should be rendered like this:
Foo Baz [bar] Blubb.
Where "[bar]" is in the same colour as the img alt attribute
from the line below (i.e. yellow=brightbrown, not-bold).
The audio/video things
Dixi quod…
> I’ve been wondering to make the attached example file more useful.
Er, yes:
Test
Foo Baz Blubb.
Your browser does not support the audio element.
Your browser does not support the audio element with sources.
your browser does not support the video tag
Foo Baz Blub
Larson, Timothy E. dixit:
>Are there any good, free, monospaced fonts with large Unicode ranges?
It’s called fixed-misc and comes with preinstalled XFree86®.
Only two sizes are good, and only one has a really large range:
$ /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm \
-fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-
Keith BOWES dixit:
>Hm, I think perhaps a more elegant way of doing it would be:
>AUDIO|VIDEO: title|src
Hm, I do not think I understand. My enquiries (inquiries?)
about title and audio/video/source were independent from
each other but just happened to peak interest at the same
time.
bye,
//mira
mark reader dixit:
> Please could you send me an executable version of Lynx (for windows - command
@all: done.
//mirabilos
--
“Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having
a peeing section in a swimming pool.”
-- Edward Burr
Johnson, Tracy dixit:
>Yes it has a POSIX shell. I should add, someone will eventually have to
>make the compile attempt. Compiles on this machine are made by
>volunteers or subscribers.
Eh, nice…
>It works as web site also, just put http:// in front of it.)
It doesn't, the web site is empty.
Johnson, Tracy dixit:
>Ah, I should have said to add a trailing slash as well.
It looks like this, the entire website:
The New Invent3K Index
Invent3k Index
Lim Hayseng dixit:
>I’m trying to submit a form with Unicode characters. The characters are
>displayed ok in the form prior to submitting, but once I click submit, they
>are
>transmitted in “crippled” form. For example with the input string:
I had the same problem with a site once. (I think it
Keith BOWES dixit:
>Yeah. It's too bad that Lynx doesn't save your browsing history and
I am glad. It would be a privacy nightmare.
Then, you have bookmarks…
bye,
//mirabilos
--
[00:02] gecko: benutzt du emacs ?
[00:03] nö [00:03] nur n normalen mac
[00:04] argl [00:04] ne
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> It's probably a small change that's needed. I don't have access to VMS
> (that ended, it seems, when HP turned off their test-drive a few years ago).
It’s now called DSPP I think, and you have to sign up as partner
business, but that’s how I occasionally test mksh on HP-UX
Pawel Chwalinski dixit:
>I am writing to ask about a possibility of having lynx run on an
>arbitrary network interface.
This is _probably_ job of the OS. (If someone knows better, please
do tell.) If you are on GNU/Linux, this will help:
ip r add to 5.6.7.8 src 1.2.3.5 dev eth1
This will tell i
Webmaster dixit:
>I am trying to check my pages
Nice try. @all this is some kind of pr0n spammer.
Do NOT visit these pages.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
13:47⎜ if i were omnipotent, i would divide by zero
all day long ;)
(thinking about http://lobacevski.tumblr.com/post/3260866481 by wag
Pawel Chwalinski dixit:
>What do you think about using SO_BINDTODEVICE option while crating a
>socket for the web browser? Would that be any possible solution ?
No.
$ fgrep -r SO_BINDTODEVICE /usr/include/ | wc -l
0
bye,
//mirabilos
--
> Hi, does anyone sell openbsd stickers by themselv
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> I see (perhaps yet another breakin on savannah?). I have the roughly 100
> emails on my machine - it might be possible to add that data. (I've been
Consider gmane.org – it is, there. They archive.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
13:47⎜ if i were omnipotent, i would divide by zero
Bilal MK dixit:
>Thats works in my terminal, But in crontab does not work,
>#!/bin/bash
>export TERM=xterm
>/usr/local/bin/lynx -dump
>http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=mysite.com >
>/tmp/mysite.txt
That's not a crontab entry. A crontab entry would be:
*/30 * * * * /usr/bin/env
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> I'd assumed he was calling the given script from crontab.
He didn’t say that; and in this case, on Debian and similar OSes,
the following caveat applies (only where there’s /etc/cron.*/):
21:44⎜
http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/i8z20/frustrating_unix_pitfall_of_the_
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> a workable rcs2git script (last year someone asked regarding mawk,
No. git is not nice. It’s also suited only for the development model
of the Linux kernel.
CVS would be nice, though.
I’m willing to host a publicly-accessible mirror of any ,v-file
repository you can throw
Dafydd Crosby dixit:
>Git is actually pretty easy to work with
/me parses this as “git is actually pretty to lose data with”
(and I haven’t managed that with any other VCS or DVCS, even
during a merge operation).
bye,
//mirabilos (too bad ,v availability doesn’t solve the PRCS problem)
--
you
Thomas Dickey dixit:
> The last I looked, both CVS and PRCS have assumptions about ,v-files,
> and they don't coincide.
Yes, this only works for CVS/RCS ,v files, not for PRCS :(
(Still better than switching to hype-of-the-day.)
bye,
//mirabilos
--
15:39⎜«mika:#grml» mira|AO: "mit XFree86® wär’
Keith BOWES dixit:
>(which is why I moved me feed reader back to CVS; eventually, the SVN
>repository became so corrupt, I couldn't even repair it).
Yay!
You might have liked this when your SVN repo was still usable:
https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/svn2cvs.sh?rev=HEAD
bye,
//mi
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Odd. When I try to view the source I see:
>application/xml D)ownload, or C)ancel
That’s because you serve it wrong, server-side. The correct thing,
despite what the with-each-other-conflicting “standards” say, is
to deliver ANY kind of HTML/XHTML as text/html unless the brows
Keith Bowes dixit:
>It is an XML document, mixing various XML namespaces, for browsers that
>support them. Sending it as text/html would just make browsers treat it
>as tag soup and ignore the other namespaces.
Then send it as application/whatever to browsers that support it.
The code is pretty
Keith Bowes dixit:
>20/20. There's libcroco, but I've never used it (I just know librsvg's
I’d rather have Lynx not depend on the whole GNOME stack.
(Actually, it SHALL not have another dependency anyway,
since the BSDs won’t include “new” GPL’d code into their
respective trees.) Lynx is in base
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Curious: a lot of programs use glib to get around this kind of thing
I absolutely refuse to allow anything using libglib in base.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but
what about xfs, and if only i had waited until
Ralph Babel dixit:
>May I suggest that the classic ASCII apostrophe (0x27)
>be used instead of the backtick (grave accent, 0x60) for
Yesplease! U+0060 should never be seen because it’s really
a combining character which only wasn’t as ASCII doesn’t
know about those.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
08:05⎜ m
Stefan Caunter dixit:
>I realize I had mostly stopped using google (with lynx) because of
>this. Seemed to render worse for me in cmd.exe environments, probably
>because of the smaller window environment.
Yeah, that sucked, unless you used a shell function to call it,
like this:
$ ggs foo bar
Al
Stefan Caunter dixit:
>-restrictions maybe, or -anonymous, but I don't know of a distro that
>ships like that.
Cookie, charset, transfer rate, etc. settins maybe,
at least Debian ships with these as (!) in the (O)ptions
screen (in MirBSD, all options except user agent and X
display are savable).
Bela Lubkin dixit:
> ${@-/dev/stdin}POSIX shell syntax for "This script's arguments,
> or if none, /dev/stdin (standard input)"
You want "${@:-/dev/stdin}" with the double quotes and the colon.
(Yes, that’s POSIX.)
bye,
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mk
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Je 2011-Sep-29 je 19:09, KIHARA Hideto skribis:
>> Please support meta charset attribute of HTML5.
>Hm. Is it really worth being so concerned about this? Ian Hickson has
Also, there is the http-equiv. And with XHTML, which most users
of HTML5 will probably also use, everyth
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Je 2011-Okt-03 je 11:10, Thorsten Glaser skribis:
>> You want "${@:-/dev/stdin}" with the double quotes and the colon.
>> (Yes, that"s POSIX.)
>What's after the colon is the default value?
No. The colon before the dash, which is the ope
Hi,
I might already have complained, but I still (2.8.8dev.7a) have the
problem that sometimes, on loading a page (even ‘v’ can trigger it)
the first line of the rendered text (directly below the violet tit‐
le line) is empty (all black; mouse-marking shows no contents), and
the first character of
RJ Partington dixit:
>out lynx.browser.org with updates. *ahem* But if someone wants an
>account to update the page and host files, let me know.)
How about making it a CNAME to lynx.isc.org ?
I think that would reduce confusion in the long term,
unless lynx.isc.org will have more downtime in the
Thomas Dickey dixit:
>> We have a machine with multiple NICs.
> I don't think you can, without some modification. Recently someone was
> asking how to select a specific network interface (no patch provided).
That’s way too OS specific, anyway. It’s better to use the OS-provided
multihoming mech
Ivan Shmakov dixit:
sufficiently cross-platform [1].
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/bind.html
If it’s listed there, it’s cross-platform but not sufficiently
(FSVO sufficient, in the Lynx target operating environment sense).
bye,
//mirabilos
--
FWIW, I'm q
Stefan Caunter dixit:
>Looks like lynx on win32.
Proxy or transparent proxy?
bye,
//mira“wild guess”bilos
--
If Harry Potter gets a splitting headache in his scar
when he’s near Tom Riddle (aka Voldemort),
does Tom get pain in the arse when Harry is near him?
-- me, wondering why it’s n
CzeÅÄ!
Krzysztof Żelechowski dixit:
> XML, XML stylesheets and the method of serving them to the client is a
> WWW standard
XSLT is not part of HTML. Lynx displays HTML (and Gopher, FTP,
Usenet and some other obscure things).
XHTML is the XML rendition of HTML. If the server emits XHTML
as
Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit:
> For example: http://www.hvrkomm.de (German site).
This does not exist:
tg@blau:~ $ host -t ns hvrkomm.de. a.nic.de.
hvrkomm.de does not exist at a.nic.de (Authoritative answer)
bye,
//mirabilos
--
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s
Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit:
> The w3c validator says this file is valid html.
The HTML may be valid, but the link still doesn’t match the
syntax for URIs. This is an IDN, and all links (in the HTML)
*MUST* be in the form: http://www.xn--hrkomm-wxa.de/
This is also the hostname to use in vhosts, etc.
Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit:
> ö or & etc. are allowed characters in an URL.
The browser converts
http://www.hörkomm.de/";>foo
to http://www.hörkomm.de/ which is an invalid URL.
The ONLY place where non-ASCII characters are allowed in
a “web address” (IDNA) is a browser’s address bar. They
a
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Besides, entering an IDN in Lynx's "address bar" (after
>pressing g) doesn't work either.
That, and the command line, are the only places where IDNs are
allowed. My lynx isn’t built with IDN because I’m of the strong
opinion that they’re crap, so I wouldn’t know whether it wor
Mark Skilbeck dixit:
>Jump URLs. For example, if I have a Jump defined as:
>
> dgghttp://duckduckgo.com/?s=%s";>DuckDuckGo search,
I’m just calling it from the shell:
ddg() { # DuckDuckGo Search
${BROWSER:-lynx}
"https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=mo
Mark Skilbeck dixit:
>> ddg() { # DuckDuckGo Search
>> ${BROWSER:-lynx}
>> "https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=monospace&ku=1&ko=s&k1=-1&kv=1&q=$*";
>> }
>How does that handle encoding the query?
The spaces are part of the one argument passed to lyn
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Time to move Lynx to SourceForge or somewhere else that has a good
>uptime?
*laugh* *cough*
//mirabilos
--
“Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having
a peeing section in a swimming pool.”
-- Edward Bur
David Schroeder dixit:
>type="submit"..
This is one of the reasons I’d like lynx to have some sort of
in-place HTML editing, which would then re-parse and use this
changed HTML as if it came from the server originally. (Which
would also be nice for web app QA, fuzz testing, etc.)
For this specif
Hans-Stefan Suhle dixit:
> I need to access this page:
>
> https://banking.postbank.de/
You can forget that, they don’t even want to support Lynx any more.
I complained loads about it. And their new banking is even worse…
That said, the SSL connection WFM.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
"Using Lynx is
Thomas Dickey dixit:
>(Aside from Debian/Ubuntu/etc, it seems that no one uses GNUTLS).
This just _asks_ for a snide comment ☺
I tried to get the situation in Debian changed, but their interpretation
of the GNU GPL is erring _too_ much on the safe side. Or they don’t want
to piss the FSF off. Wh
Hi! Reduced testcase:
tg@blau:~ $ /usr/bin/lynx -width=90 -dump x.htm
I can see youඕre not fully up to standard yet, and wish you get better soon ᄎ
I can see you’re not fully up to standard yet, and wish you get better soon ☺
tg@blau:~ $ /usr/obj/gnu/usr.bin/lynx/lynx -width=90 -dump x.htm
Hi,
dev.11, lynx, startfile is my $HOME, I hit O, change something
(e.g. send user-agent checkbox), confirm and get:
Alert!: Reloading document. Any form entries will be lost!
The document of course contains no forms.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
“Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like havi
ja...@phillipsjk.ca dixit:
>The UTF-8 character string in question was: E2 80 99
>On the wire (line 139 of the Lynx.trace) this gets sent as:
>%C3%A2%80%99, an invalid UTF-8 sequence. The correct string would be:
>%E2%80%99
This is definitively ouch. I was not able to reproduce this
with dev.11 a
Keith Bowes dixit:
>It's not that important. It's just there have been so many improvements
>to Lynx since 2.8.7 and I'd love for a better build to be available in
>distributions. That's all.
Many distributions carry the current development versions as primary
(MirBSD, MirPorts, Debian) or alte
Mark Skilbeck dixit:
>I noticed this behaviour when visiting google.com (bad, yes I know!): when
>tabbing through the links after the first line of text, the text for the links
>would change to include to first letter of the link-text. For example, if the
>link text was "iGoogle", upon tabbing to
Klaus-Peter Wegge dixit:
> I'm using lynx as URL viewer in the alpine mailer on debian linux
^^^
> xpdf and how to come over it. I'd prefer that lynx simply comes up with
> the download menu for the pdf file.
> This effect is not spe
Thomas Dickey dixit:
>Actually it's the mailcap file which tells lynx what to do with a file.
>
>> At work, I couldn’t manage to get lynx to use xloadimage
>> (which I’ve specified as XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND) for images,
>> it always uses the system’s apparently-default imagemagick
>> which is a PITA.
h...@tbbs.net dixit:
>I turned this into HTML.
Well, you do not understand HTML. Skip all those br tags
and let lynx wrap. Use logical formatting and the ol tag.
bye,
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Mark Skilbeck dixit:
>I narrowed it down to the use of --enable-widec and --with-screen=ncursesw.
That’s normally what is used to make this kind of problem
go away. Are you 100% sure your terminal is Unicode?
Also, try xterm – almost all other terminal emulators are buggy.
bye,
//mirabilos
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Diego Elio Pettenò dixit:
>The attached patch solves it altogether.
It introduces new bugs, for example, make(1)¹ has no -C option.
① https://www.mirbsd.org/man1/make
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Diego Elio Pettenò dixit:
>Is that just an example or the only one you can find?
Just one example, as that’s enough to prove breakage ;-)
>So, I accept it might break further for other systems (and I'd be glad
>if somebody can tweak it who has access to them), but right now this
When porting mk
Keith Bowes dixit:
>Compatibility with non-GNU makes? I didn't think any cross-platform
>free-software program still did that.
All that are at least somewhat clueful do that.
Including things generated by GNU automake…
bye,
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Dominik George dixit:
>lynx advertises in its Accept-Encoding header sent to HTTP servers that it
>accepts the "compress" Content-Encoding.
>
>Upon receiving actual content with Content-Encoding: compress, it thoughtlessly
>passes it to gunzip, which obviously cannot handle compress (.Z) data and
Thomas Dickey dixit:
>> Putting \x1F\x8B\x08\0\0\0\0\0 (an empty gzip header) in front
>> of the received data, et voilà, it decompressed with gzip(1).
>
>If it's a widely-used defective function, we could always provide a
>workaround :-)
If you can detect it…
>The usual problems in this area ar
Ivan Shmakov dixit:
>I may be mistaken here, but the above makes me think that the
>decompression code per se was released into the public domain,
Yes, that was attempted.
>which qualifies as both “free” and “open source.”
No.
It’s still unlicenced, as “Public Domain” isn’t a licence but
rathe
Thomas Dickey dixit:
>The pdcurses change history is vague, but seems to state that it uses
>the same variation from X/Open as ncurses, i.e., that the non-wide
>character functions accept multibyte characters.
Yes, but the Windows console window doesn’t support UTF-8 with that.
bye,
//mirabilos
Ivan Shmakov dixit:
> Which makes me wonder, is there a Lynx-friendly Usenet archive
> somewhere?
lynx does NNTP, so a usenet server of your choice would do.
(Although, slowly and not really powerful UI. While still
slow, I prefer using pine for NNTP, personally; though, for
a quick p
pfour...@mninter.net dixit:
>Using the Simplified, Win32-Borland 'C' compile instructions created
>a stable binary. What is the proper procedure to generate a Win32
>installer/uninstaller for this lynx binary code?
I’d write a .INF file.
Example:
[Version]
Signature=$CHICAGO$
[DestinationDirs
pfour...@mninter.net dixit:
>http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
>
>Shouldn't the free 'QuickStart Pack' be adequate to setup Lynx?
I don’t like such non-transparent stuff. Plus, INF files
work on versions before win2k just as well. But it’s your
choice.
bye,
//mirabilos
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Hi,
Index: WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/lynx/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.109.12
diff -u -p -r1.1.109.12 HTTCP.c
--- WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c 23 Aug 2
Ákos Sülyi dixit:
>What are the requirements beside than it should interpret the scripts?
It would not “help” to do what people want, because lynx does
not use the DOM internally.
Really, why would you want to have all this ECMAscript stuff
anyway (especially considering that most of it is used
Dario Niedermann dixit:
>Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Is there a good gopher server still around?
I think you asked this again, some time ago, and I pointed to
gopher://gopher.semmel.ch courtesy of Symlink’s Ventilator.
My bookmarks, now that I search them, also include
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/1/
Vlad Brown dixit:
> I found interesting your page Lynx which I googled on
> http://lynx.browser.org/!
Well it's lynx.isc.org now. What _did_ become of browser.org by the way?
> I'd love to use it in a project I'm involved with called "SoftDroid", so I'm
> seeking your permission for translation
Sh�rab dixit:
>lynx version 2.8.8dev.14-1 (Debian) fails to open the following address:
>http://www.gandi.net/admin
Go to (O)ptions and change a setting to the following:
Preferred encoding : [34][(1)__None]
Then you get the 401 Unauthorised message body, as shown below.
The
Karl-Heinz Weirich dixit:
>when trying to load the web page http://mobil.t-online.de/ I permanently
>get the error:
>error, uncompressing temporary file.
OK, now, to everyone who digs this thread out of old archives¹,
please read http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel/7746
and http:
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