no, that was not the question at all.
In fact, this person has a Braille display and cannot get voice dream
reader for the mac to work well.
i shared how I use lynx, load the .xml file provided by bookshare and save
it as a text file, stating clearly that I am not using the mac to do
this, or using braille at all.
Their question was.
Karen, what is lynx, and what is the mac equivalent?
So, probably for a conversation to which you are not a party indeed
makes things complicated...and a longer thread.
karen
On Wed, 22 Jun 2022, Travis Siegel wrote:
> The simple answer is that the latest version of lynx available for mac
> is the same exact version of lynx available for any other platform,
> (whatever that may be at the time of asking).
>
> My answer was simply an explanation of how versions that were not posted
> on the web site (if indeed they were posted) could be created for the
> mac.
>
> Not trying to be difficult here, but the question the original person
> probably wanted to know is:
>
> What version of lynx is posted on the official site for OSX.
>
> Since that wasn't the question actually presented, I simply answered how
> the original poster could obtain the latest version of lynx with some
> information about having trouble with a particular package system,
> thereby warning them they could use said system, but that it might cause
> them problems.
>
> Nothing says you have to like the answer I gave, but to be perfectly
> fair, it is a valid answer, whether you like the answer or not.
>
>
> On 6/22/2022 7:59 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Travis,
> > As expressed, this question is not for me, with your answers far
> > afield
> > from the simple information sought.
> > on the lynx.browser.org page mac os x is listed as an option, with
> > my
> > recalling a list member getting help using that edition for site
> > testing.
> > However, that does not tell me what the current lynx edition is for
> > mac,
> > which is the question I was asked.
> > best,
> > Karen
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2022, Travis Siegel wrote:
> >
> > > Been a while since I had a working mac, but last time I did,
> > compiling > one from source was trivial, and caused no issues. (this
> > is almost > always how I handle opensource software), especially
> > since on mac, the > macports they have that is supposed to make things
> > easier trashed my > machine once, so I will never use that
> > particular cludge again. On the > other hand, the lynx download
> > page does have various versions, though I > don't know if there's
> > one there for mac or not.
> > > > As far as putting it into a section on the finder menus, that's
> > easy > enough (assuming it hasn't changed), just use root access to
> > copy the > program to the folder in question, and problem solved. On
> > the other > hand, since it's a terminal program, you may need to
> > create a script to > launch it with the particular environment you
> > want, as I'm not sure if > it picks up the terminal defaults when
> > being launched from finder.
> > > > Probably doesn't answer the question, but it may give enough
> > for the > original poster to figure out what's necessary.
> > > > > On 6/22/2022 10:26 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > > A question from the voiceover list to which I belong.
> > > > I recall that there is a lynx compile for mac os X but am
> > unsure of > > how
> > > > updated. Also can lynx be say added to the browser
> > applications > > folder,
> > > > or must it be run in terminal?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Karen
> > > > > > > > >
>
>
>