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Re: [Lynx-dev] latest mac edition of Lynx?


From: Karen Lewellen
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] latest mac edition of Lynx?
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:43:04 -0400 (EDT)

But as stated, I was seeking answers for someone who *is not* on this list...had no idea what lynx was at all in fact. Travis made the 2011 comment important, because to borrow your own reasoning, many who use mac infrastructure understand that one can keep upgrading that infrastructure allowing it to remain current..there is for the most part rarely such a thing as ancient mac hardware.
Still your use of the word assumption rings true.
Others had no issues actually answering the question successfully.



On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Bela Lubkin wrote:

The 2011 reference has absolutely nothing to do with my question.

That you consider my comment about a co-worker using a 2011 macbook pro to
be part of the question illustrates how much travesty this off course.

In your initial question you mentioned a person on a mailing list.  In a
later reply you mentioned a coworker with a 2011 system.  Since I was
not looking at the first post at that time, I made the assumption that
these were the same person.  You are the one who introduced a separate
and (as you say) irrelevant person.  I am the one who mistook that for a
repeat reference to the original person needing the info.

For goodness sake, why on earth would  my stating a co-worker used a
macbook pro at all have any  part in this discussion if they are not
seeking answers?

Because it was not clear that these were separate entities.

The initial form of your question was confusing because list members
here expect all versions of Lynx to work on all versions of Mac OS.  It
would be like asking 'has this car been tested with Brooklyn pavements?'
-- the respondents are flustered by the oddity of the question.

If you said 'I'm trying to help someone who needs Lynx on a Mac, where
can they get it?' nobody would have been confused.  The answer would
still be a little difficult because of the messy interaction Mac OS has
with open source.

I'm glad your list member will now be able to get Lynx going; and, one
hopes, successfully drive their braille and/or voice assistive devices.

Bela<





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