Message-Id: <201501030036.t030aEw1023005@delorie.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:10:01 +0100 From: Juan Manuel Guerrero To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Lynx 2.8.8 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of Lynx 2.8.8 to MSDOS/DJGPP. Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals, 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. ======================= The only DJGPP specific changes where those required to get the current version of lynx configured and compiled with DJGPP 2.04. Using 204 only requires very little fixing but when 2.03 is used more fixes are required because the lynx code expects that certain headers like stdint.h and others shall be available. All this can certainly be fixed but I do not have neither the time nor the interest to do it. DJGPP 2.03 is simply to old. This port has been configured to work when installed into a DJGPP installation tree. This means that all default paths to directories assume the DJDIR prefix. The port has been configured using the configure script provided by the source package. This means that no old DJGPP specific scripts or makefiles distributed by the package have been used. Most of the porting work has been invested in the DJGPP specific configuration scripts. This port has been configured to be compiled with BZIP2, ZIP and PDCURSE support. This means that if you want to recompile the preconfigured sources you must have installed the following ports: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-106a.zip ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/zlib128b.zip ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/pdcur34a.zip Building with stock djdev204 is no longer supported due to bugs in different LFN functions that makes the port useless on plain DOS together with LFN drivers that do not implement the full set of 0x71NN functions. Instead of using the libc.a provided djdev204, a libc version compiled from the repository code has been used. The repository code has been patched with the memory patch as provided by Andris Pavenis in: http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/djdev/djgpp/20140421/use_nmalloc.diff The goal is to test how well the new memory system and the current libc code works. The repository code can be downloaded from Martin Stromberg's site as: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ams/djgpp/cvs/djgpp.cvs.tar.gz The port has been configured and compiled with NLS support enabled using the latest ports of libiconv and gettext: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/licv114br2.zip ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gtxt192b.zip These are DXE3 modules and _MUST_ be installed or the program will abort every time it is started. If you prefer no NLS, then reconfigure the sources passing the no-nls flag to the config.bat file. The port has been configured with OPENSSL support. OpenSSL support requires installing the WATT-32 port. The following ports have been used: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/ssl101jb.zip ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/wat3222br3.zip No other versions have tested. To be able to use this program compiled with OpenSSL and WATT-32 a noise source must be installed. A noise source can be obtained as: http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/noise063a2.zip To be able to run the program, configuration files are expected to be found in their canonical place. This is the /dev/env/DJDIR/etc directory. The configuration files lynx.cfg and lynx.css are stored in the /etc directory and reflect the conditions during the configuration and compilation process of this port. You may need to adjust the entries to fit your requirements. To run the program, a working version of wattcp.cfg is required. This file is __NOT__ distributed with this port. That file will reflect your network environment and hardware. It is the user's job write one that matches his environment. As a starting point you can use the one distributed with the WATT-32 port. Please note that the location of wattcp.cfg must be specified by setting the WATTCP.CFG environment variable. This can be done either in the environment, in autoexec.bat or in djgpp.env. To be able to run the program, a DOS packet driver (PKTDRVR) is required. This may be obtained from the card manufacturer or from one of the archives of packet drivers (such as "http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/pktdrvr-pre.html" or "http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/pktdrvr/"). Even when only browsing local files, a NULLPKT packet driver is required like nullpkt.zip. The zip file can be downloaded as: http://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/DOS/Hardware/2/NULLPKT/NULLPKT.zip 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. It is important to realize that this port to be used on __PLAIN__ DOS only. If for some reason you think that lynx must be used under Windows, you should download a windows port of lynx. If you decide to use this port as stand alone program then you __MUST__ set at least the following environment variables to point to the required configuration files: LYNX_CFG Set to the full path and filename for lynx.cfg LYNX_LSS Set to the full path and filename for lynx.lss WATTCP.CFG Set to the full path for the WATTCP.CFG directory SSL_CERT_FILE Set to the full path and filename for your file of trusted certificates There is a batch file stored in the /share/lynx_doc/samples directory that shows how to run lynx as a stand alone application. Please note that I am neither a lynx user nor a DJGPP/DOS network expert. This port shall only be a test for the OpenSSL and WATT-32 ports. As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files, etc.) are located in the /djgpp directory. Please read the docs very __CAREFULLY__ to become familiar with the product. The port has been compiled using a libc.a version compiled from current repository code and patched with the new malloc code. This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (times tamp 2015-01-02): Lynx 2.8.8 binaries, scripts and man format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lynx288b.zip Lynx 2.8.8 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lynx288s.zip Send lynx utils specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel