Lynx Ver. 2.2 is now available for anonymous ftp from FTP2.cc.ukans.edu as /pub/lynx/lynx2-2/lynx2-2.tar.Z and /pub/lynx/lynx2-2/lynx2-2.zip ( ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx/lynx2-2/lynx2-2.tar.Z ) ( ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx/lynx2-2/lynx2-2.zip ) Lynx is a distributed hypertext browser with full World Wide Web capibilities. For an explanation of features and a demo, telnet to "www.cc.ukans.edu" and login as "www". This release of Lynx has been compiled by me on the following platforms: o IBM (AIX 3.2) o DEC Ultrix o DEC Alpha OSF/1 o Sun 4 o NeXT (Mine is an older version of NeXTStep, but it should work with newer ones too.) o OpenVMS for Alpha AXP (Multinet) This release is rumored to compile on the following platforms: o HP-UX (snake) o Solaris 2 o SVR4 o VMS (UCX) o LINUX o SGI o SUN 3 o AIX 3.1 o NeXTStep 3.x o SCO o BSDI o Apollo Binaries for the following platforms are available: o IBM (AIX 3.2, will work with 3.1 as well) o Ultrix o Alpha OSF/1 o Sun 4 o OpenVMS for Alpha AXP (Multinet) A listserv list exists for the distribution of Lynx related information, updates, and development discussion. o Lynx-Dev@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu Send a subscribe request to listserv@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu to be added to the list. All new releases will be anounced on this list. Please do not send subscribe requests to the the Lynx-Dev list directly. The following new features have been added/changed: Please see http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_lynx/lynx2-2.html for more details on new features. * Interruptable I/0 now completely works. Just hit a 'z' anytime during a transfer to abort. If there is a partial file to show, it will be shown. * bold and emphasis now use curses underlining to represent ephasized text. The use of _underline_ chars before and after the text is now removed. * added new more informative messages for form links and transfers. * added 'd' for download current link. Can be used to force a download of any file. * Command keys are now completely configureable through the lynx.cfg file. (thanks go to David Trueman) * 'r' removed as a comment key. Use 'c' to comment or reconfigure your keys to add 'r' back in. (I would like to use 'r' in the future to mean remove current bookmark link) * Added support for HTTP redirection. (I haven't tested it heavily because I don't know of many servers using redirection, so let me know if something breaks) * Added Referer: header to HTTP request to specify the URI of the document from which the URI in the request was obtained. This allows a server to generate lists of back-links to documents, for interest, logging, etc. It also allows bad links to be traced for maintenance. * fixed -dump and -source options so that they work for binary files. * Added NNTP posting capibilities. Currently uses external inews program which will be included in the utils directory. Would someone like to patch in some freeware inews code? * Added configurable download menu so that binary files may be downloaded using any protocol. Download menu is displayed after selecting a non-displayable file. * added configurable character sets. Can be set in lynx.cfg, by the user in the options screen, or in the users .lynxrc file current sets are: ISO Latin I, DEC Multinational, IBM PC Character set, & 7 bit approximations. New sets can be added to src/LYCharSets.c * slight change in forms user interface. For the better I hope you will agree. Text input fields are now active as soon as the cursor pointer is over them. Therefore you may begin typing into the text field as soon as you come to it. Tab, and up and down arrow keys will move off of the text input field. Return will also move to the next link. The only problem with this is as follows. If you are in the habit of using the number keys (keypad) the or h,j,k,l VI keys, as soon as you move over the text link you will begin seeing numbers or hjk or l show up in the text field. In other words, your movement commands are now broken :( You must use true arrow keys, return or the tab key to move off of the text field. I've tried this out and it seems to work alright. I don't think that users unfamiliar with this will have too hard a time figureing it out. Once you see numbers or letter appearing it becomes fairly obvious whats going on. Lynx puts a message at the bottom of the screen saying "use tab or arrow keys to move off of link." * added mods by David Trueman to implement -restrictions commandline option. -restrictions allows a list of services to be disabled selectively. -restrictions takes the form of "lynx -restrictions=[default],[all],[inside_telnet],[outside_telnet],[shell],\ [editor],[bookmark],[option_save],[print],[file_url],[download],[exec]" all restricts all options. default same as commandline option -anonymous. Disables default services for anonymous users. Currently set to, all restricted except for: inside_telnet, outside_telnet, and goto. Defaults settable within userdefs.h inside_telnet disallow telnets for people coming from inside your domain. outside_telnet disallow telnets for people coming from outside your domain. shell disallow shell escapes editor disallow editing bookmark disallow changing the location of the bookmark file. options_save disallow saving options in .lynxrc print disallow most print options goto disable the 'g' (goto) command. file_url disallow using G)oto to go to file: URL's download disallow saving binary files to disk in the download menu. exec disable execution scripts exec_frozen disallow the user from changing the execution link setting in the O)ptions menu. * Added command line option -show_curser. If enabled the curser will not be hidden in the right hand corner but will instead be positioned at the start of the currently selected link. show curser is the default for systems without FANCY_CURSES capibilities, and the default configuration can be changed in userdefs.h * fixed bug in password handling which cuased it to be displayed accidentally :( (Danny Mayer) * Added exec links. 4 types currently defined: (* compiled out by default! *) files ending in: .csh, .ksh, .sh, (for UNIX) and .com (for VMS); Use exec link controls to turn on and off exec links. * Gopher menues are now within 
 so that spaces are not
  collapsed in menu entries.
* Ability to FTP to VMS systems. (Foteos Macrides)
* Lynx FTP now supports PASV code. (fixes to CERN (Dave Raggert?) PASV code
  from John Ellson)  It is not enabled by default.  Line 43 in
  WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFTP must be commented out for
  PASV code to be used.  This was done because not all FTP sites
  can support PASV FTP.