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Re: lynx-dev unable to connect to remote host
From: |
Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev unable to connect to remote host |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 06:21:07 -0500 (EST) |
990304 Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed a binary Lynx 2.7.1 for AIX.
> My AIX version is 4.3.1.0
there may not be a more upto-date binary, but 2-7-1 is 2 years old:
you should try compiling 2-8-1 from www.slcc.edu/lynx/release .
> whenever I try to start lynx I get "unable to connect to remote host".
> This is not a network problem, because I can connect
> to any http site successfully using "telnet some.site.com 80".
the first thing is to check your startfile in lynx.cfg :
if it's lynx.browser.org/ , it may be off-line;
change it to a local file, which will get Lynx started.
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