Juan Manuel Guerrero released this port on 12 November 2021.
Summary of ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Lynx 2.9.0dev.10 uploaded.
* LFN support
* default code page: cp850 (instead of iso-8859-1)
* supports HOME environment variable
* with BZIP2, ZIP and PDCURSES support
* without NLS (Native Language Support) support enabled
* with IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) support
* with OPENSSL support (requires WATT-32, which requires a DOS packet driver)
Excerpt:
Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running
cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals
and vt100 emulators running on character-cell display. It will display
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents containing links to files on the
local system, as well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp,
wais, nntp, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins
to telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts.
DJGPP specific changes.
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This port is based on the current develop code of lynx (aka lynx2.9.0dev.10)
available as:
https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx-cur.tar.bz2
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The lynx executable itself handles http:, https:, ftp:, file:, news:, nntp:
and gopher: protocols. You will need external programs if you want to access
telnet:, tn3270:, or mailto: URLs. In this case a port of kermit may be
required.
Please note that lynx does _NOT_ support javascr*** at all. So nothing will
work that requires this feature. If you need this, look for a different
text web browser.
It is important to realize that this port is a _PURE_ DOS port. If for some
reason you want to use lynx under Windows, you should download a windows
port of lynx.
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When connecting to a site via https, lynx will require that a file of
trusted certificates is available. It is your's responsability to create
such a file and the port will _NEVER_ provide one. This .PEM file is
created using openssl tools. Read the openssl documentation. A working
linux installation provides always one. It may be found by the name
"ca-bundle.pem" or similar. In the end it must be a file in PEM format.
Store it where you like and point to it by setting the corresponding lynx
environment variable like this:
set SSL_CERT_FILE=/dev/env/DJDIR/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.pem
Of course the value propossed is arbitrary and reflects the way I do it
for my own installation of lynx. A starting point for reading about how
to create your own PEM files is:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2002-12/msg00043.html ---
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