From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 19 14:10:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE41152CF for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20744 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:22:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "2000" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdU20742; Fri Aug 20 07:22:50 1999 Message-ID: <01a401beea88$06167720$817e03cb@2000> From: "Doug Young" To: References: <19990819202320.27166.rocketmail@web111.yahoomail.com> Subject: Re: Netscape (and others) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:15:49 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In response to Simon Mendosa From: Simon Mendoza To: Kremlin Vostok ; FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 6:23 AM Dunno how you can call lynx "user friendly" ...... maybe it is to an expert but sure isn't for newbies, which I understand is the user base of this particular list. FreeBSD docs generally are heaps more intelligible to newbies than any of that linux stuff, and a dedicated newbie mailing list is the best idea yet, but from my point of view at least, advice as to what application is user friendly or otherwise needs to be factual and relevant to someone at newbie level. Where does one find info on configuring Lynx ...... there isn't anything at the homepage, or anywhere else I can find for that matter. I posted that question on several local mailing lists in Australia and after I got through all the typical "its easy, just read the HOWTO" responses I have learned to expect from "experts" .... I eventually found that in fact nobody had managed to get lynx working at all, whether in *nix or windows. I'd like to use lynx .in both windows and *nix situations, but without any proper info on how to get it working its no use whatsoever to me. The problems I had .... and others too .... were "startfile not found" (even though its where it should be and uncommented), "temp" file can't be opened" (even though permissions are correct), and similar stuff to that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message