user friendly browsers

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Wed Jul 4 23:56:27 EDT 2001


I don't think that he is aware of the cfg
file's exsistents, let alone how and what
to change in it to get
the desired behaivor.
I can't really help much here,
as I copied my already modified
lynx.cfg from the zipslack distro.
Greg


On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:29:23PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> What happens if you press the letter g and then type in a uri such as:
> 
> 	http://www.linux-speakup.org
> 
> and press enter? Does the speakup web site home page come up?
> 
> PS: Where is your cursor while you're in Lynx? Press the dot key on the
> numeric keypad to find out. The dot is the smaller key between insert/0
> and the enter key on the numeric keypad.
> 
> PSS: Is link numbering turned on in your lynx? Or do you just not like
> that? I ask because most blind lynx users prefer this, in my experience.
> 
> Please tell us a little more. I am very sure we can turn you into a fan of
> lynx.
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Ed Thurston wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am very much a newbie!  Around three months ago a friend set up this
> > Linux system for me and gave me some start up instructions.   I am using
> > Speakup, SlackWare, Elm, Joe and Lynx.  I am not sure of the versions of
> > any of the foregoing, but they were the latest available three months ago.
> > everything is going great so far except for  Lynx.
> >
> > Whenever I load it, I get some general instructions and several links.
> > After clicking on a link I go to the Lynx web site and they want me to down
> > load andinstall that particular program.  However, I already have a lynx
> > program loaded and all I want is to get to it's command line so that I can
> > use the net.
> >
> > Also After reading a manual on Lynx or rather a very long list of many
> > pages of commands, I am wondering if if there is a more user friendly web
> > browser?  I heard somewhere about one called w3m, but don't know if it has
> > a version for Linux.  does anyone have any information on it?
> >
> > I would be very appreciative for any assistance anyone  can give me.
> >
> > Ed,
> >
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> 
> -- 
> 
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
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