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Hi

Most eagerly waiting to do all that for lynx.

Please post the details

TIA

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From: Raj Mathur <raju@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Sunday, August 01, 1999 11:06 PM
Subject: This page best viewed with Lynx


>Hi,
>
>I don't know how many of you people out there use Lynx for browsing
>the web, but I use it a lot, for many reasons:
>
>- It's wonderful on slow links
>
>- You don't need to load X to run it (and I do most of my work out of
>X)
>
>- It's lightweight (atleast compared to the OTHER heavyweight browser)
>
>- Quick startup time
>
>- And I guess lots more.
>
>So far I'd been using it and internally complaining that it wouldn't
>let me view anything except text-type files.  Then I discovered these
>few programs and features which make life so much easier:
>
>- Zgv: allows you to view graphics on the console.  Handles JPEG, GIF,
>PBM, tons of formats and uses SVGALIB.
>
>- Ghostscript: if compiled with the appropriate drivers, renders
>PostScript and PDF documents on the console using SVGALIB.
>
>- The lynx.cfg file, which allows you to tie all these programs into
>Lynx and let it handle all sorts of mime types.
>
>Now I've configured my Lynx to automatically convert all graphics on a
>page to links and download and display any I choose with the click of
>a button (yeah, Lynx does mice also, didntcha know?).  No more waiting
>3 minutes for Netscape to load up just to hit userfriendly.org!  And
>PS and PDF files are a snap now that I've told Lynx to automatically
>render them using Ghostscript.
>
>Lynx is also smart enough to figure out if you're using it in X, and
>you can specify different commands to render objects depending on
>whether you're in X or not.  E.g. use zgv to render graphics on
>console and xv to render them in X.
>
>If anyone's interested I can post (or put up on a web page) the
>required commands and configurations to help make Lynx your default
>browser with no loss of information.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Raju
>
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