New version of lynx available in ports

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1 total messages Started by Kim DeVaughn Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:00

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Author: Kim DeVaughn
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:00

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There is a new version of "lynx" available in the ports collection:

 >  Category www (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/www.html)
 >==================================================================
 >
 >   lynx-2.8.1rel.2
 >          A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client.
 >          Maintained by: ache@FreeBSD.ORG

Among the significant user-visible changes are: 1) persistent "cookies"
(across sessions) are now supported, and 2) "partial documents" may now
be displayed (meaning you don't need to wait for an entire lengthy doc
to be received, before starting to read it).

FWIW, I've been running a personal copy of this since 2.8.1-rel.1 was
released a few weeks ago without problems, and while I generally dislike
and don't allow cookies, it *is* nice not to have to manually "login" to
the New York Times site, or to the IMDB when sending an update.

There's several other, smaller improvements, too.  I've had no problems
with the new versions.

You busy, Dima ...?

/kim

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