Calling Up Lynx

T W

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Feb 8, 2011, 12:53:54 PM2/8/11

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How do I set up Lynx, so that I can call it up?

Holger Marzen

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Feb 8, 2011, 1:51:50 PM2/8/11

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* On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:53:54 +0000, T W wrote:

> How do I set up Lynx, so that I can call it up?

As I did with w3m (nicer with tables):

url-viewers="/usr/bin/w3m _URL_"

T W

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Feb 8, 2011, 2:23:46 PM2/8/11

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Could you explain it better. I don't understand it.

Holger Marzen

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Feb 8, 2011, 3:04:41 PM2/8/11

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This ist an excerpt from .pinerc

You can configure (Al)pine interactively as well:

M S C

Then find the line beginning with "URL-Viewers", press C and change the
field to "/usr/bin/lynx _URL_"

T W

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Feb 8, 2011, 5:05:04 PM2/8/11

to Holger Marzen

I tried that and it didn't work.

When they ask you to name your URL viewer, do you just say LYNX?

Hart Larry

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Feb 9, 2011, 12:44:07 AM2/9/11

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Well TW, before you alter a configuration, you first will need to find out the
full path to lynx. From a shell promt, type
which lynx
Once you have that, paste that in the space in the alpine setup screen. If you
have a lynx.cfg in your home directory, you may wanna use it instead of the
system file. Hopefully that will guide you--and-maybe if any1 has any
corrections or better examples, they will chime in
Hart

Holger Marzen

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Feb 9, 2011, 12:52:07 AM2/9/11

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* On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:05:04 +0000, T W wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Holger Marzen wrote:
>>
>> You can configure (Al)pine interactively as well:
>>
>> M S C
>>
>> Then find the line beginning with "URL-Viewers", press C and change the
>> field to "/usr/bin/lynx _URL_"
>>
> I tried that and it didn't work.
>
> When they ask you to name your URL viewer, do you just say LYNX?

Open a Terminal-Prompt an type:
which lynx<ENTER>

The system will probable answer with:
/usr/bin/lynx

Start (al)pine and go to M S C
Scroll down until the line beginning with URL-Viewers is highlighted.
Then press C. You'll see an editable line on the bottom, Change it to
Change field url-viewers list entry : "/usr/bin/lynx _URL_"

Don't forget the double quotes.
Then press <ENTER> and exit setup with E. (al)pine will ask you
Commit changes ("Yes" replaces settings, "No" abandons changes)?
Then press Y and you're done.

T W

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Feb 9, 2011, 9:40:11 AM2/9/11

to Holger Marzen

Hi Holger.

Someone on my system told me to use:

URL Viewers= "/usr/pkg/bin/lynx _URL_"

It seems to be working.

Myron A. Calhoun

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Feb 10, 2011, 5:51:51 PM2/10/11

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>How do I set up Lynx, so that I can call it up?

I can't answer for Pine, but in FORTRAN I just make a system call:

Result = SYSTEM ( 'lynx ' // URL // ' > ' // FileName )

and then I open and do whatever I want with FileName's contents.

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Allodoxaphobia

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Feb 10, 2011, 6:32:30 PM2/10/11

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(First attribution dropped by previous followup...)

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:51:51 +0000 (UTC), Myron A Calhoun wrote:
>>How do I set up Lynx, so that I can call it up?
>
> I can't answer for Pine, but in FORTRAN I just make a system call:

ForTran I !!! ???? Not yet ForTran II, even?? :-)