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where to get lynx binaries?
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Original Message
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Name: beosuser
Date: July 6, 2004 at 10:55:11 Pacific
Subject: where to get lynx binaries?OS: Windows 98SECPU/Ram: P2 333mhz |
Comment: does anyone know where to get a working copy of lynx? From their official site there's only the source code, and I don't know how to build it. and would lynx work on dos, (not the dosbox on win)?
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Response Number 1
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Name: jboy
Date: July 6, 2004 at 13:23:04 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)By their official site, I presume you mean lynx.browser.org
"Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web. Lynx 2.8.3 runs on Un*x, VMS, Windows 95/ 98/NT but not 3.1 or 3.11, on DOS (386 or higher)"
A few moments of looking around there led me to this site, where I downloaded v2.8.2, which also claims: "The 386 version runs in DOS and requires a 386 or higher and some sort of packet driver."
We have nothing against ideas. We're against people spreading them. - General Augusto Pinochet of Chile
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Response Number 2
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Name: 4004
Date: July 6, 2004 at 15:10:58 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Try the latest May 2004 DOS port of Lynx: DOSLynx....http://members.nccw.net/fmacall Includes DHCP which the earlier ports of Lynx did not.
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Response Number 3
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Name: beosuser
Date: July 7, 2004 at 07:13:22 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)downloaded the doslynx, but it asks for a "packet driver". Aren't those things just for dialup internet? I have broadband, how does lynx work with packet driver under broadband?
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Response Number 4
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Name: 4004
Date: July 7, 2004 at 10:13:48 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you have ADSL Broadband how are you connecting to the Modem ?? If this PC on a TCP/IP LAN then you will have an Ethernet Card in the PC, for example if I had installed a Dlink525 NIC I would type the following line in the same directory as the packet driver file: DE525.COM 0x60 pressing enter should bind the packet driver to the NIC. If you are trying to connect direct to a ADSL Modem then you are out of luck as DOSLynx does not understand JAVA/HTTP Upload which is required to configure the Modem's inbuilt webpages. If you are using a direct plugin ie cable without a modem then you need your ISP to use PPPoE protocol. The link I gave above has lots of info., as does:
http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net
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http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14970.html
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Response Number 5
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Name: 4004
Date: July 7, 2004 at 11:43:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just to clarify I am talking about "PURE" 16bit DOS ie MSDOS6.xx, PCDOS 6/7/2000, DRDOS7.xx or equivelent. In WfW 3.11 and later use IE / Netscape.....etal
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Response Number 6
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Name: Bicephale
Date: July 12, 2004 at 00:40:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Dear beosuser, If you don't have time to learn how to
configure a pure DOS INet setup there's
`Lynx v2.8.4rel.1-mirabilos'. I have it
installed as a `W32' console application
and it provides the same feeling as when
i TelNet to the remote Lynx browsers but
without the need to build `WatTcp.CFG'... The copy i use can be found right here: http://mitglied.lycos.de/mirabilos/pub/ DownLoad `lynxw32.lzh' and open with some
utility such as `WinRAR'. ;-)
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Response Number 7
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Name: mceric
Date: July 14, 2004 at 15:12:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Try using Arachne - now also
available in a GPLed version.
However, unless you run it
from a RAMDISK, it is quite slow.
A graphical DOS browser with
support for FTP, POP3, SMTP...
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