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--- RELEASE of 2.3 (19-May-1994) ---
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* Better memory allocation routines used for some VMS systems.
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* Non-interactive (-source) access to documents requiring access authorization
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not allowed to avoid crashes.
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* Lynx exports the environment variable LYNX_VERSION on UNIX systems
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with the current version number as the value.
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* added "action=" handling to ISINDEX tags. (Is that in the spec?)
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* fixed Telnet security problem
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* added .mailcap and mailcap support as well as mime.types support
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for the configuration of viewers and extension mappings.
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The test command is now implemented so that viewers can be conditionally
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* Revamped the FTP code to recognize different server types and to parse
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full directory listings (LIST output). File types, sizes and dates
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are displayed when possible.
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* added transparent support for mosaic bookmark files. Just point
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Lynx at your existing default mosaic bookmark file and Lynx will
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handle the rest. Viewing, addition, and removal are supported.
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* added second line of reverse video to show multiline links better.
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* added configurable MIME types and viewers to lynx.cfg. MIME types
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and VIEWERS can be configured by following the instructions within
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the newest lynx.cfg file.
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* added second %s argument to PRINTER and DOWNLOADER definitions.
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If a second %s is present in the command definition it will be
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filled in by a suggested filename which is derived from the URL
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of the document. See lynx.cfg for more details.
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* got code from CERN to fix HTBTree FTP bug. Large ftp lists should
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* added no_proxy environment variable. set it to a comma delimited list
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of domains or hosts that should not be proxyed. (Thanks CERN :)
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setenv no_proxy "domain1.dom, domain2.dom, domain3, etc"
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* Fixed Referer: field handleing so that it doesn't crash on really
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* True popup menus are now supported for non-multiple SELECT lists.
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* fixed the delete-a-bookmark command and bound it to 'r' for remove.
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(thanks to David Trueman for the fix)
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---------- RELEASE of 2.2 ------------------
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* added 'd' for download current link. Can be used to force a download
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* 'r' removed as a comment key. Use 'c' or reconfigure your keys to
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add 'r' back in. (I would like to use 'r' in the future to mean
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remove current bookmark link)
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* Found the bug in the HTTP redirection code that was causing it
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not to work. So HTTP redirection appears to work now!
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* Added Referer: header to HTTP requests to list the URL of
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the document listing the requsted URL. Here's an extract from CERN:
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This optional header field allows the client to specify,
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for the server's benefit, the address ( URI ) of the document
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(or element within the document) from which the URI in the
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This allows a server to generate lists of back-links to documents,
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for interest, logging, etc. It allows bad links to be traced
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* changed novice line to be displayed on bottom two lines with the
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status line moved up two lines.
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* Made configurable keymappings a reality. Keys can be remapped in
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the lynx.cfg file. (diffs from David Trueman)
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* Got code from Foteos to make 'a' work for VMS connection interrupts.
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* Moving closer towards configurable keymappings. New keyhandleing
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code will make it very easy to implement. (diffs from David Trueman)
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* Lynx FTP now supports PASV code. (fixes to CERN (Dave Raggert?) PASV code
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from John Ellson) It is not enabled by default. Line 43 in
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WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFTP must be commented out for
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PASV code to be used. This was done because not all FTP sites
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* slight change in forms user interface. For the better, I hope you will
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agree. Text input fields are now active as soon as the cursor pointer
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is over them. Therefore you may begin typing into the text field
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as soon as you come to it. Tab, and up and down arrow keys will
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move off of the text input field. The only problem with this is as
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follows. If you are in the habit of using the number keys (keypad)
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the or h,j,k,l vi keys, as soon as you move over the text link
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you will begin seeing numbers or hjk or l show up in the text field.
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In other words, your movement commands are now broken :( You must
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use true arrow keys or the tab key to move off of the text field.
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I've tried this out and it seems to work alright. I don't think
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that users unfamiliar with this will have too hard a time figureing
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it out. Once you see numbers or letter appearing it becomes fairly
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obvious whats going on. I'll put a message at the bottom of the
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screen saying "use tab or arrow keys to move off of link."
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* added mods by David Trueman to implement -restrictions commandline
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option. -restrictions allows a list of services to be disabled
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selectively. -restrictions takes the form of
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"lynx -restrictions=[default],[all],[inside_telnet],[outside_telnet],[shell],\
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[editor],[bookmark],[option_save],[print],[file_url],[download],[exec]"
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all restricts all options.
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default same as commandline option -anonymous. Disables
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default services for anonymous users. Currently set to,
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all restricted except for: inside_telnet, outside_telnet, and
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goto. Defaults settable within userdefs.h
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inside_telnet disallow telnets for people coming from inside your
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outside_telnet disallow telnets for people coming from outside your
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shell disallow shell escapes
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editor disallow editing
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bookmark disallow changing the location of the bookmark file.
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options_save disallow saving options in .lynxrc
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print disallow most print options
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goto disable the 'g' (goto) command.
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file_url disallow using G)oto to go to file: URL's
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download disallow saving binary files to disk in the download menu.
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exec disable execution scripts
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exec_frozen disallow the user from changing the execution link
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setting in the O)ptions menu.
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* added new more informative messages for form links.
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* fixed -dump and -source options so that they work for
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* Interruptable I/0 now completely works for UNIX systems.
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VMS is next. Just hit an 'a' for abort anytime during a
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transfer to abort. If there is a partial file to show, it
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* Added command line option -show_curser. If enabled the curser
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will not be hidden in the right hand corner but will instead
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be positioned at the start of the currently selected link.
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show curser is the default for systems without FANCY_CURSES
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capibilities, and the default configuration can be changed in
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* Added NNTP posting capibilities. Currently uses external inews
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program which will be included in the utils directory.
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Would someone like to patch in some freeware inews code, or
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* fixed bug in password handling which cuased it to be displayed
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accidentally :( (Danny Mayer)
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* bold and emphasis now use curses underlining to represent
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ephasized text. The use of _underline_ chars before and after
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the text is now removed.
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* Added configurable download menu so that binary files may
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be downloaded using any protocal. Download menu is displayed
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after selecting a non-displayable file.
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* Added exec links. 4 types currently defined:
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files ending in: .csh, .ksh, .sh, (for UNIX) and .com (for VMS);
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Use exec link controls to turn on and off exec links.
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* Gopher menues are now within PRE so that spaces are not
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collapsed in menu entries.
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* added configurable character sets. Can be set in lynx.cfg
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by the user in the options screen or in the users .lynxrc file
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current sets are: ISO Latin I, IBM PC Character set, & 7 bit
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approximations. New sets can be added to src/LYCharSets.c
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----------RELEASE of Lynx 2.1 and 2.1.1----------------------
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* Ability to FTP to VMS systems. (Foteos Macrides)
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* Fixed lots of display and interupt problems (Foteos Macrides)
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* The Lynx Bookmark file is now interpreted as an HTML document.
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Old Lynx bookmark files must be converted using the lynx2html
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* HTML+ forms as implemented by XMosaic now work.
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fill in the empty spaces and press the submit button to
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* The TEXTAREA tag isn't done yet. It will currently only
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give a one line text area. The next version of Lynx will
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include a true textarea implementation once I figure out a
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reasonable interface.
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* Incorporated WWWlib 2.14 and fixed up the descrip.mms files.
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Foteos Macrides made VMS port changes and wrote a really nice
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build.com script to make compilation on VMS systems really easy.
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Foteos also ported Lynx to OpenVMS for alpha axp systems.
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* 's' now means search a searchable indexed document through the
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server, and can no longer be used to search for strings within
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the displayed document.
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* '/' now only searches through the current displayed document for
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strings and can not be used for searchable index documents.
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* Capital 'Q' now quits without asking for confirmation.
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* 'm' for Main Menu now askes for confirmation and does NOT clear
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* Blockquote style changed slightly.
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* fixed bug with A and other tags messing up formatting
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withing PRE segments.
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* Verbose Gopher option removed, verbose gopher functionality
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is now set permenantly on.
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* Default editor is now configurable in the lynx.cfg file.
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* Default bookmark file is now configurable in the lynx.cfg file.
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* ownership is no longer inherited.
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* link rev="owner" href="mailto:ADDRESS" now accepted as well as
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link rev="made" href="mailto:ADDRESS" to define the URL of the
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owner or person responsible for the info.
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* 's' now only searches ISINDEX server documents.
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* '/' always means search within the document.
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* still doing massive rewrite. Debugging!!
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* anonymous users cannot change the bookmark page! (thanks to Jyrki Kuoppal for
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pointing out a security hole)
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* massive rewrite. Removed all Lynx internal format code and
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restructured all the source files.
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* added (non-breaking space),   and  
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---------- RELEASE of 2.0.12 -----------------
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* Change HTInit.c so that unsupported types are not sent out
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in accept parameters. For non X screen only text/html and
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application/octet-stream are sent.
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* descriptive title added to files mailed from lynx
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* disabled FTP connection caching to help fix multiple FTP problems
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* added preliminary level 1 forms support.
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* fixed a bunch of gopher holes
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* gopher lists are turned into URL's now instead of lynx
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internal format document links
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* local documents ending in .html can now be referenced with
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just a filename and/or path from the command line.
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* Added preloaded searches to gopher URL's. They previously
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didn't work. This is readily apparent as preloaded CSO
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searches, which alot of people wanted.
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* removed old hytelnet compatibility code which looked in
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multiple directories to find the correct file. If you still
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need this capibility talk to me.
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* The users specified editor is now spawned for mail messages.
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If no editor is defined or if the user is anonymous, the built-in
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lynx mail sender is used.
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* changed all static data structures to be dynamic
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This was a pretty major change of code which may add several
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* rewrote parse_links routine to make it more efficient and to
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work with dynamic structures.
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* added progress messages to HTTP transfers.
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* added -cache=# command line option to specify the number
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of WWW documents cached in memory.
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* added VMS port fixes from Foteos Macrides. Lynx now
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compiles and works on VMS!
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* fixed ftp bug in WWWlib that didn't de-escape URL's before
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sending request to FTP server.
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* fixed coredump bug for some files with no links.
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* Moved many configuration options including printer setup to
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lynx.cfg file. The default placement of the lynx.cfg file
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will be /usr/local/lib & sys$public
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* Removed STARTDIR variable from userdefs.h STARTDIR is now inferred
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* Fixed bug with only one link selectable out of many on the last line
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* Ported to SVR4 courtesy of Nickolay Saukh (from Russia, Wow this is
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really getting around!)
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* Uneditable documents don't get refetched. (Nickolay Saukh)
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* National language support through LOCALE
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(instead of ISOLATIN1), protected by #ifdef LOCALE (Nickolay Saukh)
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------Release of Lynx 2.0.11--------------------------------
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* Caused major international incident when a large bug was discovered after
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* Fixed internal document hypertext refernces with URL's. '#selector'
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strings now work again.
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* When files come through on pre HTTP/1.0 servers they are now
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recognized by their file extensions
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* Lynx can now speak to old NCSA pre HTTP/1.0 servers
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* fixed ALT bug that had to do with style changes not
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happening before the alt was printed.
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* updated the man file lynx.1.
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* updated help and converted it to HTML. Made a new help location and
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server. The new default help file is
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http://kufacts.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
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* changed '\' to toggle between source and no source. When you press
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'\' while viewing a rendered HTML document you will get the HTML source
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when you press '\' while viewing HTML source you will get the
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* Added ALT attribute to IMG tag. When ALT is available the contents
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are displayed. When ALT is missing [IMAGE] is displayed. When
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ALT="" nothing is displayed.
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* Added document reload command. CTRL-R when pressed will reload
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the document into memory and redisplay it, clearing the screen.
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This is very useful when editing documents, outside of Lynx while
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using Lynx for rendering.
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* Added source view mode. '\' when pressed will reload the document
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and display the HTML source. (doesn't work for gopher directoryies right
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now, but gopher isn't HTML anyways)
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* fixed bug in LibWWW that caused it not to be able to convert to
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* fixed bug in LibWWW that caused most binary file transfers to fail
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* added binary file transfer ability. When binary files are selected
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the user is prompted for a file name to save to. The default directory
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is the one the user started in.
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* Lynx now reloads local HTML files and re-renders them after editing.
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* At some point I added the ability to edit HTML files on the local
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* Added Nested Lists, up to six levels, with different bullets
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* Due to the fact that nearly everyone seems to use P to mean
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two returns within the same style, and Mosaic has been kind
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enough to support this meaning, :( :( :( I have changed
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the P tag to reflect this interpretation. P can be used
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anywhere and will mean insert two returns. (i.e., two BR tags)
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* Made the default Mime type for unknown file types on ftp servers
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to be text/plain. Previously the WWWLibrary had the default
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as application/octet-stream which meant that most files could not
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* Changed the ADDRESS style to be more like XMosaic
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Left flush, newline top and bottom
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* The Statusline now displays the URL when retrieving files.
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* added BR (linebreak) tag!
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The BR tag inserts a line break and maintains the current style!
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The BR tag may be used anywhere.
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* added HR (horizontal rule tag!)
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The HR tag puts a horizontal line seperating two bodies of text.
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The HR tag may be used anywhere.
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* All spaces, tabs and returns are now collapsed down do one
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* fixed bug whiched caused certain links beginning at the
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begining of a line to be bad.
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* added '*' (stars) to unordered lists and numbers to ordered
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* changed dir lists to be more like menu lists.
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* all emphasis, physical and symantic, now have _underlines_
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around them to show emphasis.
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RELEASE OF VER 2.0.10 -----------------------------------------------
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Added [IMAGE] in all places where IMG tags appear.
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added WWW_HOME environment variable support.
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fixed searching in WWW.
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removed tildas from mail messages for security reasons.
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added emacs-like key defs.
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changed gopher dir routines and Verbose format of directories
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Forgot to put all kinds of bug fixes and stuff in here during the
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past month. I have been working on upgrading to the 2.X WWWlibrary
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Today I changed 'g' to mean goto a url, and 'v' to be view the
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Fixed problem with ftp: URL not being recognized and not working.
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Tried to remove the use of tabs and replace them with appropriate
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spaces. This was done to support brain dead curses packages that
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don't handle tabs. (like linux)
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Fixed socket problem which was causing a problem with telnet's
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Fixed SUN curses problem, now works with the /usr/5lib routines
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Added an option to turn on link numbering
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Fixed read_rc() bug which caused .lynxrc files to be read incorrectly
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Fixed file cacheing bug which only allowed searching to be performed
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once. (it cached the answer and displayed that each time a new
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search was requested)
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Fixed VMS I/O bug and TCP routines.
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Fixed a bug: Multiply defined procedure async_abort in
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the files get_file and get_bin_file
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Optomized Gopher TCP routines, increased speed by a factor of 10!
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Added WWW support by integrating the WWWlib1.4
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Added home page support and append features.
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Added support for Image types using xloadimage for X-terminals.
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