
                               Lynx README file
                                       
WHAT IS LYNX?

   Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running
   cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100
   terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other
   "curses-oriented" display). It will display hypertext markup language
   (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local
   system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher,
   HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers. Current versions of Lynx run on
   Un*x and VMS.
   
   Lynx can be used to access information on the World Wide Web, or to
   build information systems intended primarily for local access. For
   example, Lynx has been used to build several Campus Wide Information
   Systems (CWIS). In addition, Lynx can be used as a shell interface for
   beginning users.
   
   For information about Lynx, including new updates, go to the
   			Lynx Enhanced Pages
   	<URL:http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/lynx.html>.
   
   Lynx is distributed under the GNU General Public License without
   restrictions on usage or redistribution - see the accompanying
   COPYING file for more details.  Any licensing or usage questions
   should be directed to Michael Grobe <grobe@ukans.edu>.

   Certain portions of the Lynx source distribution were originally
   created by CERN and have been modified during the development of
   Lynx.  See WWW/Copyright.txt for copyright info regarding CERN
   products used in Lynx

DOCUMENTATION

   A users guide is included in this distribution along with a man page
   for Un*x systems and a help file for VMS systems. All documentation is
   contained in this directory and doc subdirectory.
   
   While running Lynx, type 'h', 'H', or '?' to invoke the help menu
   system. From the help menu you may access several useful documents
   pertaining to Lynx and the World Wide Web. The most important of
   these is the Lynx Users Guide. By default, Lynx will use the Lynx
   Enhanced Pages, which includes http links for help and FAQs conerning
   Lynx. It is recommended that you install your own help menu system at
   your site in order to lessen the load on http servers. This also will
   allow you to customize the help menu system for your site.
   
   To install the help menu system, copy the lynx_help/ and about_lynx/
   directories to a public place on your system. Then, edit the lynx.cfg
   file so that the HELPFILE line is defined as follows:
   

      HELPFILE:file://localhost/[public_path]/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html

   where [public_path] is the absolute path to the lynx_help directory.
   
   Customizing the help menu system is just a matter of editing a set of
   HTML files.
   
INSTALLING LYNX

   To install Lynx, follow the steps listed in the INSTALLATION file
   located in the source distribution.
   
PROBLEMS

   If you experience problems installing or compiling Lynx, there is a
   mailing list called lynx-dev which is frequented by Lynx experts. To
   subscribe to lynx-dev, send email to majordomo@sig.net with only the
   following message in the body:
   
      SUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV

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   Finally, please...please...please do not send commands to the
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