Lynx Optimized For Mac Os X

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Lynx Optimized For Mac Os X 10 12

Lynx optimized for mac os x 10 12

Lynx is one of the most popular web browsers forcommand-line interfaces. Unix is the primary operatingsystem that uses it, but versions are also available for VMS,DOS, Windows 95 and later, Mac OS, Mac OSX, and Amiga OS. Lynx was designed to display plainASCII text on simple terminals, without including anymultimedia content. This lets you view hypertext documents andnavigate through lists of links with just your keyboard. You can't usea mouse, display graphical images, or play sound files.

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At Indiana University, you can use Lynx on Quarry.

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Lynx is convenient for modem users because it requires lessinformation transfer than graphical browsers that load largemultimedia files. People with network connections (such asEthernet cards), for whom transmission time is less of aconcern, may prefer to use graphical browsers such asFirefox or Internet Explorer.

Note: Although you can't view graphical images inLynx, you can transfer them (and any other binary files)for later use by other applications. You can make Lynx indicate whereimages are present in a web page by pressing* (the asterisk). If you already know animage's URL, you won't have to do this.

To start Lynx, at the command line prompt, enter: Coreldraw x7 for mac os x download.

If you have a specific URL in mind, you canappend it, as in the following example:

When you view a web page with Lynx, it consists of plain text, usuallyembedded with highlighted links to various other web pages.

Using Lynx, you can navigate the web with just your arrow keys. The upand down arrow keys will move you from link to link on the page. Theright arrow key will select a link and call up the page to which itpoints. The left arrow key will take you back to the page you werepreviously viewing.

Note: Even if you see several links side by side onthe same line, you still need to use the up and down arrow keys tomove between them.

Following is a list of some common Lynx commands:

  • For help and other Lynx information, press? (the question mark).
  • To scan through a long web page one screen at a time, use theSpacebar.
  • Lynx has a bookmarks file; you can consider this apersonal address book for sites on the web. To save the location ofthe page you're viewing, press a, and thend. To view your bookmarks file,press v.
  • To see the document at a specific URL at any time, pressg, and then enter the full URL. For example,to connect to the Yahoo web index, you would pressg and then enter:
  • To see the URL of the page you're viewing, press= (the equal sign). Then press= (the equal sign) again or the left arrowkey to go back to the page.
  • To abort your connection to a slow or unresponsive link, press:
  • To see the HTML source of the page you're looking at,press (the backslash). Then press (the backslash) again to re-display theplain text version.

For more information about Lynx, visit the Lynx Developers page.

To download Lynx for most operating systems, visit the current release page.

To download a Lynx ported to the Mac OS X Installer system, visit theGNU Mac OS X Public Archive.

Note: Lynx is also a short name of LynxOS, aUnix-like operating system produced by LynuxWorks. For more, consultcomp.os.lynx newsgroup or visit the LynuxWorks corporate web page.

At Indiana University, for personal or departmental Linux or Unix systems support, see Get help for Linux or Unix at IU.

This is an old thread but since I came across it when I was trying to install Lynx, I thought I would share what I did.
I wanted to be able to install the latest version of Lynx and include SSL support. I had found a package that I could install with the latest version but it didn't include SSL support for some reason so I decided to try building Lynx from the source.
From things I had read about doing this, it seemed that I would need to make sure that I could build the source against openssl and ncurses so instead of installing them on my machine (actually I think my new Mac has them both, I decided to do the following..)
I. Download Source
We require the source from three packages:
ncurses: (Home Page) http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html (Download) ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses
openssl: (Home Page) http://www.openssl.org (Download) http://www.openssl.org/source/
lynx: (Home Page) http://lynx.isc.org/release/ (Latest Development Download) http://lynx.isc.org/current/
For these instructions I downloaded and used the following versions of the source:
ncurses-5.5.tar.gz
openssl-0.9.8b.tar.gz
lynx2.8.6dev.18.tar.bz2
II. Setup Build Area and Extract Source
cd ~
mkdir lynxbuild
cd lynxbuild
tar -xzf /path/to/ncurses-5.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf /path/to/openssl-0.9.8b.tar.gz
tar -xjf /path/to/lynx2.8.6dev.18.tar.bz2
III. Setup Temporary Install Area
cd ~
mkdir tmpinstall
IV. Build and Install nCurses to Temporary Install Area
cd ~/lynxbuild/ncurses-5.5
./configure --prefix=/Users/doug/tmpinstall --with-shared
make
make install
V. Build and Install OpenSSL to Temporary Install Area
cd ~/lynxbuild/openssl-0.9.8b
./config --prefix=/Users/doug/tmpinstall shared
make
make test
make install
VI. Build and Install Lynx to Temporary Install Area
CPPFLAGS='-I/Users/doug/tmpinstall'; LIBS='-L/Users/doug/tmpinstall'; ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-ssl=/Users/doug/tmpinstall --with-screen=ncurses
make
make install
Lynx is now installed at /usr/local/bin/lynx
The lynx.cfg is installed in /usr/local/lib
I hope that helps someone else