Re: latest mac edition of Lynx?

Indeed those seasoned in mac os were appreciative.  big shore is a recent 
edition  of the system.
Another member indicated that Home brew is also used to distribute Lynx.
In the end I got the answer sought, helping  someone overseas dealing with 
international bookshare files too.
Thanks all,
Kare



On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hi Karen,
>
>> To be forthright, I have no idea what fink is, nor have I heard of macports.
>
> both are methods of packaging up commonly-available software for Mac OSX,
> which does not have any repository for third-party software like, for
> example, most GNU/Linux distributions do. There are others (e.g. pkgsrc
> from NetBSD can be used), but these two are primarily intended for Mac OSX.
>
>> The use of the word ship in the context below seems? to suggest distribute.
>
> Yes.
>
>> If that is the case, especially as I believe the  mac list members
>> asking about lynx are using big shore the last before the m1 units,
>
> I have no idea what *that* means. But then, I don’t use a Macintosh
> myself (I only have remote access to one for work stuff) and never
> liked them.
>
> Macintosh users would often know either Fink or Darwinports/macports.
>
>> then I feel comfortable sending them to the developer editions.
>
> For some software, and lynx does indeed fit into that category,
> their developer versions are more stable than most software’s
> release versions. So go for it!
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
> [...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but
> what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be-
> ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there
> was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :)  -- Ted Unangst über *fs
>
>