For this cdrom, I tested/updated using accounts provided by Jerry Leslie (VAX with OpenVMS 7.1), as well as the HP test-drive (Alpha with OpenVMS 7.3, IA64 with OpenVMS 8.2). There are three executables which have been built for the cdrom. They are linked with UCX 4.2, 5.4 and 5.5 for the VAX, Alpha and IA64, respectively. Each is also linked with zlib 1.1.3, which allows you to view gzip'd files from the local file-browser. The freeware_demo.com script assumes you are running it from a terminal window. It runs lynx from the package. The freeware_demo.com script will construct a temporary configuration to run lynx to browse your home directory. If you have a network connection, it should be able to connect and display pages from other machines. But for a demonstration, the file browser, with help (type "?") and options menu (type "o") show a lot of lynx's functionality. For anything more complicated, you should read the INSTALLATION file from the source distribution. But just to see things run, this is the minimum you have to do: + define a logical variable LYNX_DIR + copy lynx.cfg from the source distribution to LYNX_DIR:lynx.cfg Rather than doing this, the demo script sets the LYNX_CFG variable to point to a small configuration file that includes the one from the source distribution. It also constructs a pointer to the help-files in the source distribution. The help-files can reside anywhere on your filesystem, but lynx uses a URL rather than a VMS-style pathname to access them. + define a foreign command to point to the executable, e.g., (assuming you have unzip'd the executable in your login directory): lynx :== "$ sys$login:lynx.exe" + run it (to test) on the current directory: lynx . To run it over the network, of course, you'll need a network connection. But read the INSTALLATION file for more details. Thomas Dickey