OK, so where did you put the new Lynx.  I run Lynx from a script and it can't
find lynx anymore.

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Hmm.  How does your script call it?  lynx is /usr/local/bin/lynx, which is
a symlink to /usr/local/bin/lynx284, and it runs fine for me.

when I do
  ls /usr/local/bin/lynx*.*
It says "no such file or directory"
Are you sure you have the permissions right?

Ok: !ls /usr/local/bin/lynx*
/usr/local/bin/lynx     /usr/local/bin/lynx26   /usr/local/bin/lynx282
/usr/local/bin/lynx25   /usr/local/bin/lynx271  /usr/local/bin/lynx284

Re #2: This is a Unix system, not MS-DOS or any of its offspring.  There would
have to be a dot in the filename for it to match "lynx*.*", and there aren't
any OS-defined filename extensions, so most things you have to run don't have
dots in their filenames.  Note the difference in what Kent gave in #3.  (And
the asterisk will match dots if they're there, BTW.  So use them only if you
know there's a dot in the filename & there are (or might be) so many other
matching filenames without dots that you want to make sure they're filtered
out.)

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"ls /user/local/bin/lynx*" gives a lot of garbage on the screen.
"!ls /user/local/bin/lynx*" gives "not found"
except when used in #5 where it gives the result as in #3, but interferes with
entering the response.

Bill, it's "/usr/local/bin" not "/user/local/bin".

(If you're at a Unix shell prompt, don't use the bang at the beginning.  If
you're in Picospan, a bang at the beginning causes the command to be passed
to the shell (with the bang stripped).)

OK, that's "/usr" and not "/user".  The ls works, but the script still says
"not found".  This is your script Kent.  Why doesn't it work?  Why did it stop
working when lynx was changed if it's the same name in the same place?

Not sure what you're talking about.  I so seldom use lynx on grex that
if you did find a script of mine that called it, it's probably years old.  
And I have no idea what you're trying to do that I never did.  Why don't
you send me an e-mail about it?

How do I view a file using lynx now? I used to save htm email files
to an .htm file and call them up through lynx. Now that just gives
me the header. 

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