Download lynx 2.8.6 pre.1

Lynx is a textual web browser and is included with most GNU/Linux distributions. The program was created by Lou Montulli, Charles Rezac and Michael Grobe in the Academic Computing Services Department at the University of Kansas. It was initially intended to distribute information across the university campus, but was turned into a textual web browser by Lou Montulli in 1993. Browsing with Lynx has several limitations because the browser is not able to display pictures and images, the mouse is not supported, frames are not displayed practically and all kinds of scripts and extensions are not available. The developers recently released version 2.8.6 pre.1 of lynx. The list of changes looks like this:

Version 2.8.6 pre.1:

• add –enable-widec configure option to allow building lynx without wide character support using ncursesw, to accommodate users with older releases of ncurses (request by Emanuele Giaquinta) -TD
• add -stderr option to write error messages when doing a -dump -or -source. Normally these are written to the status line but that does not exist when dumping to standard output (Debian #375736) -TD
• fixes for GNU TLS configuration (also addresses Debian #231609) -TG, TH
• add check for failure to write to disk, eg, on disk full, and report error condition via HTAlert() -PG
• updated README.sslcerts -Stef Caunter
• add example of -source in manpage to explain how HREFs are constructed (Debian #347989) -TD
• fixes to make redraw_part_of_line() to work with double-width characters. This is used in color-style to repaint an inactive hyperlink -TD
• ensure the number of “extra” blanks in a line is greater than zero before attempting to perform text-justification (Debian #363538) -TD
• improve wrapping logic in LYwaddnstr() by using a derived window. This fixes a problem with wrapping of multibyte character links -TD
• repair fix for Debian #171312 by ensuring that it is only invoked if the document was not being reloaded, or popped off the history stack (report by TH) -TD
• add error-reporting for the PRETTYSRC_SPEC data in lynx.cfg (prompted by discussion by OpenMacNews and Thorsten Glaser) -TD
• add a carriage-return in stop_curses() to work around PDCurses leaving the cursor position other places than lower-level when stopping curses (report by DK) -TD
• add an explicit wmove() in display_line() to accommodate some wide-character pages which are not handled well by the nested-table logic, resulting in unexpected wrapping (report by Dan Jacobson) -TD
• modify limit for CDK double-byte characters in display_line() to accommodate a test-case rightSideEdgeTest.html provided by TH -TD
• add a workaround in LYStrings.c myGetChar() for PDCurses, which may return an ERR value which is not -1 (reports by DK, William McBrine) -TD
• remove ifdef from 2.8.2dev.14 which omitted bindtextdomain() call from DJGPP NLS configuration -DK
• modify autoconf macro AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST to account for executable suffix in win32 environment -DK
• correct a mistyped parameter to CreateThread() (report by DK) -TD
• do not use LIBOBJS symbol directly in configure script except to support AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, since the autoconf macros dealing with that symbol changed incompatible in autoconf 2.54 (report by DK) -TD
• fixes to work with BeOS 5.0 – Nigel Horne
• use portable TXT_R rather than “rt” for popen() mode in clip_grab() (reported by Antonio Maria Borneo) -TD
• modify makeutcb.c to avoid compile-time dependency upon gettext, in case it is used in cross-compiling -TD
• modify expression for ws_read_per_sec in ws_netread() to avoid potential divide-by-zero on a network error (reported by David Potter) -Takeshi Hataguchi, -TD
• modify fix for Debian #335593 to ensure that only image maps for the current page are listed (report by DK) -TD
• correct URL for HTML’ized description of all settings in lynx.cfg (report by DK) -TD
• use configure macro CF_SIGWINCH to work around special case on Mac OS X which leaves SIGWINCH undefined -TD
• add configure options –with-cfg-file and –with-lss-file to allow one to specify the names and paths of the default configuration and color-style files -TD
• change configure script –enable-color-style so it is enabled by default (prompted by request by Jason Spiro) -TD
• add COLOR_STYLE setting to lynx.cfg -TD
• change default initialization of color-style code when no lss file is given to simulate the non-color-style code. There are some visual differences, eg, links that contain a mixture of styles will display with mixed colors, but overall the visual effect matches the non-color-style code well enough to change the default configuration. cf: 2000-07-16 (2.8.4dev.5) -TD
• fix a sign-extension in alignment case-statement in split_line() which could cause a large indent for lines which are wider than the display (Debian #360832, #372670) -TD
• fix ifdef’s in LYOptions.c to make –disable-menu-options work (report by PW) -TD

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