
                               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
   home page at the University of Kansas
   <http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_lynx/about_lynx.html>.
   
   Lynx is distributed under the GNU General Public License - 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 the doc directory.
   
   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 help
   menu system located at the University of Kansas. It is recommended
   that you install your own help menu system at your site in order to
   lessen the load on the server at the University of Kansas. This
   will also allow you to customize the help menu system for your site.
   
   To install the help menu system, copy the lynx_help/ directory 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 where you have copied the
   doc/lynx_help directory to.
   
   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 listproc@listproc.cc.ukans.edu
   with only the following message in the body:
   
      SUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV <FIRST NAME> <LAST NAME>

   If you wish to unsubscribe from lynx-dev, send email to
   listproc@listproc.cc.ukans.edu with only the following message in
   the body:

      UNSUBSCRIBE LYNX-DEV

   Also, to get a list of useful listproc commands, send email to
   listproc@listproc.cc.ukans.edu with the following command:

      HELP

   Finally, please...please...please do not send commands to the
   lynx-dev mailing list.  BTW, any messages you wish to post should
   be sent to lynx-dev@listproc.cc.ukans.edu.


