A couple of questions:
1)  How execute a command in lynx?  I played around with the homepage
and it told me to go back into lynx and type gfile://localhost/u . . .. .etc
I could not find any way within lynx to type in a command.  Nothing but
info and hypertext.  Please advise.

2)  I have been playing around with telnet and have had some limited 
success.  I am interested in making contact with some web sites, for instance
the Internet Tools Summary, as noted in the article "101 best internet sites"
in the May PC COMPUTING mag.  

How do I make contact with URL=http://rpi.edu/internet/guides/decemj/intern
et-
tools.html?  

Thanks.

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Once you're in Lynx, you can type g (it stands for go) and it will bring
up a "URL to open:" prompt.  Type in the URL at that prompt, and it shoul
work.

Yes, but leave off the URL= part, just http:// and after that.

To execute a Unix command from Lynx, either hit ! and start up
a shell (and type "exit" when you're done), or hit g
and do this:

        lynxexec:command

That's how the Lynx Activites Pages (written by yours truly)
work.

mcpoz, if you have further questions about Lynx, you might want to
either send me mail, or keep everything in one item.  Creating
items willy-nilly about the same topic is not a great idea.

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(But I tend not to use that, because if the site you're trying to
access id own, it loads up Lynx, says "Oops, this site is invalid",
and promptly drops you out of Lynx.  And you get to reload it
again.)

I finally figured out that you meant "is down", Rob.

Oops!  Yeah, that's what I meant.  I was plagued by typoes yesterday.

And today...  :)

Hey, I double-checked that response for typoes!!!

Thanks, scg, robh, & Popcorn - I'll try my newfound knowledge and also
refrain from "nilly willy."

(Is it typoes or typos?)

(According to my dictionary, it's typos.)

Of *course* it's "typos", just as the singular of "potatoes" is "potatoe".

Is there anywhere I can look to find what environment variables lynx
cares about and how it determines where the rc and bookmark files are?
I checked the man pages, but they're less informative than the on-line
help, neither of which address this issue.

Well, one of those I can answer off the top of my head -
the bookmark file is determined in your Options settings,
hit "o" to change it.

The rc file, I'll have to hunt for.

According the the Lynx help pages, the .lynxrc file is automatically
put in the user's home directory.  Don't see any way to change
this, nor any reason why you'd want to.

Okay, Rob, what's the default name for a bookmark file?  I changed mine
a long time ago.

It should be lynx_bookmarks.html.

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I would like to edit my keymap in the lynx.cfg file as I was told to in
lynx-dev but I cant find the file.

This post has been going on since 95...? how long has this system been online
anyways?

Forever?  
Nah, I think 1991, or there abouts.  IT was a spin off from an earlier
BBS that is also still online.

please tell me the Putty configuration what should i place in "Host 
name or IP Address field which one Protocol i select. i m a new user i 
create an account on "www.Cyberspace.org".
please help me i want to access linux machine for Practice
thanks

The best protocol is ssh. try "grex.org" for the address.

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