Re: OpenServer 5.0.7 man page problem

From: Alan Maul (alan_at_lasere.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:52:47 -0500

"Bela Lubkin" <belal@sco.com> wrote in message
news:20050220212619.GE14122@sco.com...
> Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>
>> Alan Maul typed (on Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:17:23PM -0500):
>> | I have installed a new OpenServer 5.0.7 with maintenace pack 3. When I
>> try
>> | to access the man pages I get the following error:
>> |
>> | lynx: Invalid Option: -justify=off
>> | USAGE: lynx [options] [file]
>> |
>> | my lynx version is 2.7.2
>> |
>> | I understand that it should be 2.8.5dev.8 .
>> |
>> | Where can I get the update for lynx and how do I install.
>> |
>>
>> Try my changes to /usr/bin/html2ascii, circa line 79:
>>
>> lynx*) export LYNX_CFG=${LYNX_CFG-/dev/null}
>> #JPRadley changed next line for later verions of lynx
>> #JPRadley which doesn't need -justify=off for its default
>> #JPRadley exec
>> $MAN_HTML2ASCII -dump -justify=off -with_backspaces
>> -display_charset=us-ascii -width=$WIDTH -nolist -force_html
>> ${@-/dev/stdin};;
>> exec
>> $MAN_HTML2ASCII -dump -with_backspaces -display_charset=us-asci
>> i -width=$WIDTH -nolist -force_html ${@-/dev/stdin};;
>
> It isn't a matter of later vs. older versions of Lynx. The OSR507 Lynx
> binary is built with `configure --enable-justify-elts`; yours isn't.
> Lynx built without support for "--justify" should probably ignore the
> flag instead of failing.
>
> Alan's problem is odd. My guess is that he installed his own Lynx build
> (or got one from somewhere), not realizing that OSR507 came with one.
> The native one is /bin/lynx. `html2ascii` is subject to the user's
> $PATH. If he has /usr/local/bin before /bin (or wherever his Lynx
> binary is), it would end up using his installed version. Or possibly he
> overwrote /bin/lynx.
>
>>Bela<

I have setup two of these 5.0.7 servers, and tried to do the same things to
both. I installed 5.0.7 form the CD and then installed the Maintenance 3.
I installed Microlite Backup edge and a printer program for Plus
Technologies. One of these system has the lynx problem and the other does
not. Obviously something else happened, but I don't know what it was.

Could I simply copy the lynx files from one system to the other and solve
my problem. What files are involved that I would need to copy?

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