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About Lynx

Lynx is a fully featured World-Wide Web browser for users on both UNIX and VMS platforms who are connected to those systems via cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators. That includes VT100 terminals, and desktop-based software packages emulating VT100 terminals (e.g., Kermit, Procomm, etc.).

For information on how to use Lynx see the Lynx User's Guide, or the Lynx help files.

Credits and Copyright

Lynx is a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of The University of Kansas. Lynx was originally developed by Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe, and Charles Rezac. Garrett Blythe created DosLynx and later joined the Lynx effort as well. Currently it is being developed by Craig Lavender and Ravikumar Kolli.

Lynx is copyrighted by the University of Kansas and is free for non-commercial use. Commercial use may be licensed at a later date, but such licensing would not be imposed retroactively on the code in this (Lynx2-4-FM) distribution.

Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and the other CERN World Wide Web wizards for the WWW client library code and all of their other work on the WWW project, NCSA and the Mosaic developers, and to everyone out in netland who has contributed to Lynx's development either directly (through comments or bug reports) or indirectly (through inspiration and development of other systems).

Also, special thanks go to Foteos Macrides who ported much of Lynx to VMS and did much of it's development during the transition period following Lou Montulli's and Garrett Blythe's departures from the University of Kansas, and to Earl Fogel of the University of Saskatchewan. Earl implemented the hypertext engine HYPERREZ in the UN*X environment. HYPERREZ was developed by Niel Larson of Think.com and served as the model for the early versions of Lynx which did not use the WWW libraries and had their own hypertext format.

Availability

The most current official version of Lynx can be obtained by anonymous ftp from: ftp2.cc.ukans.edu in the pub/lynx directory.

The most current Lynx2-4-FM code set can be obtained via: http://www.wfbr.edu/dir/lynx or gopher://gopher.wfbr.edu/11/_fileserv/_lynx or ftp://ftp.hhs.dk/fote_mirror

Mailing List

We have a listserv mailing list running for lynx development discussion. If you are interested in joining the list, follow this link. There is also a link to archives in html format for this mailing list.

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