Practical UNIX

Using a Character-Based Browser (Lynx)

Now that you have gone to all that trouble to build a binary for Lynx that runs on your machine, you actually get to use it!

“Installing” Lynx

1.	First, if your site is behind a firewall, you need to make sure that you are set up to use the appropriate proxy server, if available. Check with your system administrator to find out your proxy server’s name and the port it talks on. If you are not behind a firewall, go to step 3.
2.	After you know your proxy server’s name and port number (for this example, call the server relay.mycompany.com and the port it talks on 8080), you need to set a few environment variables before you can run Lynx. Assume for simplicity that your proxy server is a proxy for all the ...