[7659] in SIPB bug reports
Re: lynx on dialups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Oct 26 15:10:51 2000
Message-Id: <200010261910.PAA12945@multics.mit.edu>
To: Andrew Childs <amchilds@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:12:49 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:10:42 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0010261405260.14937-100000@mint-square.mit.edu>, Andrew Childs wr
ites:
>I would like to configure pine to use lynx as its url viewer, but right
>now it uses htmlview (as specificed in /mit/sipb/share/pine4.conf, which
>apparently cannot be overridden by the user's .pinerc). htmlview invokes
>netscape or lynx depending on whether $DISPLAY is set. In general, I
>don't want to unset $DISPLAY, but I would still like to use lynx for
>viewing html.
>
>Any help with this would be much appreciated.
I think the most immedaite practical solution would be for you to unset
DISPLAY when running pine -- that is
(unsetenv DISPLAY; pine)
Within the Athena environment, sinch lots of stuff uses htmlview, I think the
right answer here is to modify htmlview so that it lets you specify
a browser for it to run, e.g.
setenv HTMLVIEW_BROWSER lynx
--if so, the right thing to do would be to bring that up with bug-infoagents@mit.edu
and see if they can grant satisfaction there.
On the gripping hand, it's probably a pine bug that this setting can't
be overriden, but I'll leave that to a pine person to address.
--jhawk
