[HECnet] Lynx

Erik Olofsen e.olofsen at xs4all.nl
Tue Jan 29 05:53:08 PST 2013


If we may use an url such as mim::something.html, which would normally be a
file:// there would be some basic functionality I think?

Erik


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:04:39PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-29 13:44, Erik Olofsen wrote:
HECnetters,

Is anyone interested in using Lynx on HECnet?

Using node names in the url is not possible; some information is here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/1997-01/msg00057.html

On my Alpha with VMS 6.1, I'm able to compile Lynx version 2.3.

It seems that the latest version, 2.8.7, does not compile under VMS 8.3.

Perhaps I'm going to have a look at the old sources; perhaps I'm going
to do something more useful...

Well, the basic "problem" is that there is no http object defined in 
DECnet, nor any equivalent to the http protocol, so how would you expect 
it to work?

DECnet is not IP, nor TCP.

	Johnny



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