OT: Lynx exiting with signal 11

[Adam Myrow]

If it's mounted, and shows up in the output of "free," then that's not the 
problem.  It could be bad memory.  2.6 kernels are bigger than 2.4 
kernels, and may require more memory than 2.4, and thus, if there is bad 
memory on your system, it may be more likely to trigger the crash.

You keep talking about a swap file, but most people have a swap partition. 
The line for a swap partition in /etc/fstab will look something like this.

/dev/sda6        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
Keep in mind that you have to know which partition is your swap partition. 
Usually, setup will install it correctly, and you won't need to mess with 
it.

As for your line length, what editor are you using?  Almost all editors 
can do word wrapping.  With editors like vi and emacs, you have to enable 
it, but pico, which is the default editor in Pine does word-wrap 
automatically, and if you insert in the middle of a line, and it goes off 
the screen, hitting control-j will "justify," or refill the paragraph so 
that it properly wraps.