nah, no problems...
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* Problems *
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- Problems with ENV:Mosaic/mailcap
- Problems with my english
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Q: The URL http://foo.bar.com/blah.html doesn't display some items correct.
I checked them with NetScape(tm) and other browsers so the error might
be in ALynx.
A: Before blaming ALynx/Lynx please run the page through something like
htmlchek (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/htmlchek.html). Also it
might help to run ALynx in screenmode and toggle tracemode (^T) before
receiving the page. NetScape(tm) is very tolerant concerning bad HTML,
so lots of pages out there _seem_ to be good HTML but actually are NOT.
Iw I wuolt wrid dis gihde laik dis, yu m8 anderstand me, but thiz
dohs nod mean dis iz korrect englishish. Got me ? 8)
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Q: Control-W doesn't refresh the screen, what's up ?
A: FComp on any other keyboard-patcher might swallow it. This might
occur for other keys, too. Check your systemconfiguration.
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Q: How can i disable the "Save anywhere on disk" item in the downloadmenu ?
A: Comment out "DOWNLOADER:Save anywhere on disk :..." entry in lynx.cfg
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Q: How can i set up different downloaddirs for different users on my
BBS setup ?
A: Edit Lynx.cfg and set DOWNLOADDIR: to any local Env-variable you like.
(ex.: "DOWNLOADDIR:$USERDOWNDIR" ). Then edit the startup-script for
ALynx on your BBS to set this new variable to the desired location.
(in this case for example: "set USERDOWNDIR $HOME/downloads/"). The
DOWNLOADDIR-option accepts directories OR vars (starting with '$'),
if it doesn't exist it uses $HOME.
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Q: How can i set up different downloaddirs in the download-menu ?
A: Take a look at "goodies/copystripper.rexx". It fixes a common
problem with the ALynx supplied quoted destination-filename.
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Q: Does ALynx support the new AMosaic1.4 hotlist format ?
A: No. At least not the nonstandard \@GROUP/\@ENDGROUP-tags. Sorry, I tried
implementing this, but when i created a hotlist with AMosaic1.4ß it
went to guruland. I'll wait 'til it's more stable.
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Q: "when it asks what name to save it under, you can add a path there ??
... is there a way to make it perminantly save to a particular dir ?"
A: Well, Since 1.25 ALynx saves in $HOME by default. To specify another
default destination either modify DOWNLOADDIR: add new entries for
DOWNLOADER: in "lynx.cfg".
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Q: "it seems to work pretty fine here with Excelsior! BBS...odd thing is
that it popped my display into interlaced mode."
A: You forgot to "setenv CURSESTYPE ANSI". (sorry, wasn't mentioned here)
(now is default since port-release 1.2)
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Q: "I don't have a HOME environment variable !"
A: This variable will be created by default on local login via AmiTCP.
On MLink you have to set this one to any location where your "home"-
directory is. This location is for ALynx to search/save several files.
ALynx depends on existance so "set" oder "setenv" HOME.
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Q: "how can i get the cursor back to the current link ?"
A: start ALynx with the "-show_cursor" option.
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Q: "how can i handle bigger/smaller windowsizes ?"
A: There are 2 ENV-vars, controlling the size of the current shellwindow.
"COLS" & "columns" to set the number of columns.
"LINES" to set the number of desired lines.
The small distributed tool ReSize set these automagically.
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Q: "By the way. What's the command to clear the history buffer ?"
A: There is no such command. This is Lynx-stuff. Maybe i'll implement this
in later versions.
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Q: "How can I pass it a users email address?"
A: Options-Menu. [O] [P]
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Q: "I always get <Volume RAM: is full>-requesters after a while."
A: Your T:-assignemt probably points to RAM:T/ . This is the place
where ALynx puts it's history-pages, so it might fill up fast.
Since version 1.18 u can tell ALynx, where to put it's tempfiles.
Just take a look at lynx.cfg and search for TEMPDIR:
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