From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 30 10:51:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00994 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 10:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00976 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 10:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA23302; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:50:00 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA02883; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:49:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id TAA02867; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:31:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611301831.TAA02867@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Suggestion for lynx To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey Chernov), ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:31:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, the FAQ entry 2.15 now has a reference to /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz. While Netcrap can easily cope with this, and displays the file, lynx cannot do it by default. However, lynx provides for a good control about which `downloaders' are availabe, and FreeBSD ships with zmore(1) by default. zmore can display either compressed, gzipped, or plain text files using ${PAGER:-more}. Hence, adding the following rule to our default lynx.cfg would IMHO be a big win for our users: DOWNLOADER:Display using zmore(1) (plaintext, .Z or .gz files are allowed):zmore %s:TRUE What do you think about this? (Note that lynx is also offered by sysinstall to browse through the documentation, that's why in noticed it.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)