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- Lynx PROBLEMS file.
-
- Ideally you would never have to read this, but inevitably problems
- do arise. As implementation and installation problems become known
- they will be outlined in this file.
-
- Control-Z on Unix can cause aberrant behavior. If you encounter
- problems, use -restrictions=suspend to disable it, and only '!'
- for escapes to shell (on VMS control-Z is unconditional 'Q'uit,
- with no attempt to suspend the Lynx process only temporarily).
-
- Screen resizing can be a bit funny. If you resize the screen,
- documents that have been cached will be out of whack. Any further
- documents will look fine. This is a curses program anyway, so
- resizeable terminals are not that common. On some systems
- (i.e. HP/UX) terminal resizing does not work at all.
- You can reload documents to the current window size with CTRL-R
-
- The Sun `shelltool' and `cmdtool' terminals are stupid by default.
- In order to get bold text to appear differently than inverse video,
- the user should put this line in ~/.Xdefaults:
-
- Term*boldStyle: Offset_X
-
- From the `shelltool' man page, it seems that an analogous line
- in ~/.defaults
-
- /Tty/Bold_style "Offset_X"
-
- ought to work just as well, but I you may not get the desired
- behavior until you modify your .Xdefaults file (and run `xrdb
- ~/.Xdefaults'). Note also that there are other supported values
- for the boldStyle resource/Bold_style default, all of which begin
- with "Offset_". (helpful hint from kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com)
-
- Dirctory browsing has been implemented for VMS, but there are no
- plans to port additional DIRED support, because Lynx must handle files
- as streams, and this precludes "serious" Directory/File Management on
- VMS. Use a jumps file link to C SWING (sources or executables are
- available from ftp://narnia.memst.edu).
-
- When one switches between K)eypad "Numbers act as arrows" versus
- "Links are numbered" in the 'o'ptions menu, the change is not
- implemented until the next loading, RELOAD, or RESUBMIT of a document
- (so do a RELOAD or RESUBMIT on return to the current document, if
- necessary) and if the switch is done when the current document is a
- DIRED menu in which links have been tagged, the tagging can be trashed
- (so don't switch at such times 8-).
-
- When "Links are numbered" is on, if a line is split on an anchor (to
- obey right margin restrictions), and there is no space in the bolded
- string such that the entire "[#]string" must be moved down, the "[#]"
- becomes bolded, instead on only "string".
-
- Telnet, tn3270 and rlogin URL's are not yet supported for Lynx built
- on VMS with SOCKETSHR_TCP or CMU_TCP Andy Harper (see SOCKETSHR.announce
- or CMU.announce) is working on it.
-
- When news articles are being parsed for embedded references to other
- articles, which are encased in angle brackets, any email addresses
- that are encased in angle brackets will be misinterpretted as article
- references. They have identical format, i.e., <foo@host>, and though
- a human brain can figure out which they are based on context, Lynx is
- not as smart and always assumes that they are article references.
-
- Lynx can go into a tight loop on VMS, eating up CPU, when users are
- connected via modem or terminal server and abruptly disconnect.
-
- Lynx treats CRLF or LF as a word space when rendering HTML (or as a
- newline in PRE formatted sections), but doesn't do that for CR alone.
-
- The Mosaic v2.5 hostlist uses HTML similar to that of Lynx's bookmark
- file, but with </UL></HTML> at the bottom, such that it is not fully
- compatible with Lynx's file. If you try to use the Mosaic file as if
- it were a Lynx bookmark file, the </UL></HTML> will not be taken into
- account and new links will be added below rather than above those end
- tags. Instead, add a link to the Mosaic file in your Lynx file, and
- to the Lynx file in your Mosaic file, so that you can access both files
- with both clients.
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