User agent

David Poehlman poehlman1 at comcast.net
Sun Feb 1 11:44:34 EST 2004


well, it's either that or word pad or I could use pico for windows.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: User agent


It looked scrambled because unixish systems only terminate lines with
Ctrl-J, whereas DOS/Windows requires CtrlJ plus Ctrl-M. Macintosh, by
the way, only uses Ctrl-M Since Notepad is so stupid (and you insist on
continuing to use it), covert it first with:

unix2dos [filename]

When you're done:

dos2unix [filename]

But, why aren't you just editing from the command line with vim, or
emacs, or nano, or something?

David Poehlman writes:
> From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1 at comcast.net>
>
> Ah, The .lynxrc file was there all the time, I brought it up in note pad
> though and it looed rather scrambled.  I guess something doesn't honor new
> lines or maybe that is what the # is for.  At any rate, I found no user
> agent string or a place for one.  I'm now off to find the lynx.cfg file if
I
> have one.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: User agent
>
>
> Earlier today, three folks here posted strings that can be used. Here
> they are, separated by blank lines, just in case, so you know what's in
> them:
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET
> CLR 1.1.4322)
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
>
> Now, where you put one of these:
>
> Do o for options. From here on it depends on how you've configured your
> lynx browser, because there are, I think, three different interfaces to
> the options screens.
>
> One of them is an actual web page interface. You're looking for "user
> agent." When you find it you'll see the lynx version designation. It's
> an edit field, so just clear it out with Ctrl-u and put one of the above
> strings in with the Speakup clipboard.
>
> If you have the older (and my preferred) single-char command interface,
> the "user agent" selection is performed with the capital A. This takes
> you to an edit field that you clear with Ctrl-u and then fill from the
> Speakup clipboard, as above.
>
> Once you do this, just do left arrow to return to lynx. Test your work
> by going to Raul's web page. It should tell you that you're using
> whichever of the strings you put in.
>
> PS: You can also edit your .lynxrc, but there's no reason to make this a
> permanent thing, unless you really want to.
>
> Cheryl Homiak writes:
> > From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net>
> >
> > I don't see a masquerade-as in my lynx help, but Ii do see
a --useragent=.
> > but I'm not sure how to format it or how much I have to put in. for
> > instance, can I just have something like MSIE6.0 or do I have to put
other
> > info in and if so do i leave spaces or use colons or what?
> > I did try MSIE6.0 for starters; both the asmodean site and BOA listed
> > that as what I had but BOA still said I needed to download another
> > browser. I did read the useragent info on the website that was listed,
but
> > i still didn't really understand how to format something on the lynx
> > command line. Of course, BOA could also be picking up that the
encryption
> > is different (192 bit as I believe Janina points out in her letter) I
> > suppose. But the encryption is definitely there.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Cheryl
> >
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>
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Janina Sajka
Email: janina at rednote.net
Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org

Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
http://a11y.org

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