links versis lynx

Thomas D. Ward tward at bright.net
Mon Sep 10 19:01:06 EDT 2001


Hi, in Red Hat it should have a link to your cdrom already. Typically, you
would type a command like this.
mount /mnt/cdrom
Then you can access the rom by typing:
cd /mnt/cdrom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Ruby" <jruby at charter.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: links versis lynx


> Thank you.
>
> I would rather use lynx since it seems better, but I need to get some
packages off the redhat cdrom, but some how I am not mounting the darn thing
correctly.
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc1 cdrom
>
> What am I missing?
> Then do get to the cdrom, can I just cd /cdrom?
>
> Thx.
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:03:02 -0500, Matt Campbell wrote:
>
> >Links will work fine with Speakup, after changing a few settings.
> >In the HTML options (under the View menu), you need to turn off support
> >for tables and frames.  Also in the terminal options (under a menu
> >which is called either Setup or Settings), you need to turn off the
> >"Block cursor" setting, so you know what's highlighted on the Web page.
> >Once that's done be sure to save all the settings.
> >
> >However, Lynx currently supports some popular Web technologies, such
> >as cookies and HTTP authentication, better than Links, and Lynx is the
> >browser that most Speakup users use anyway.  So try them both if you
> >can and use whichever works best for you.
> >--
> >Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>
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