Lynx - version 2.7.2
NEW FEATURES
Release 2.7.2 of the Lynx World Wide Web Browser contains several
features not included in previous versions. For complete details on Lynx please
visit:
lynx.browser.org
Some new features, not found in the previous version, that may be
of interest to Buffalo Free-Net users include:
- Secure Socket Layer support for HTTPS URLs (secure servers)
- Support
for cookies (although not across sessions)
Pressing "C" (uppercase) will toggle this support on or off. (default
is off)
- pop-up
menus on the [O]ptions screen
- Signature file optionaly appended to mail & news from the browser.
- Table headers now properly display with a line break immediately following
the header text.
Also several new key stroke commands have been added:
(press "k" for a complete list of Lynx keystroke commands)
Additional page navigation features have also been added:
- 0(number)g
- Will skip forward in a document to the nth link, but will not follow the
link. ex. 12g will highlight but not activate the 12th link in the current
document.
- 0(number)p
- Will skip ahead in a document to the nth (screen) page. ex. 12p will display
the 12th (screen) page of the current document but will not activate any link
that may appear on that page.
A complete introduction to using Lynx (as implemented at The
Buffalo Free-Net) can be found in the
Help Desk ( [J]ump "help"
).
Written by Herb Mueller bk839@freenet.buffalo.edu
For The Buffalo Free-Net
Last revised: February 7th, 1998
This site maintained by Paul R. Sadowski,
bfn@freenet.buffalo.edu