Help! Links w/Lynx don't work

[Michael Reagan]

Here's a suggestion about a possible cause for the unexpected white 
space in your links:

While most of our pages are created on a PC with an editor, then sent 
to a Unix account with ftp, on occasion we make minor corrections with 
the Pico editor in the Unix environment.  The original PC editor wraps 
lines, and on ftp these wrapped lines become loooong lines, with no 
downside.  Pico accepts these long lines, and allows them to spill off 
the right side of the screen, with a $ to show that the line continues.

At a point in the line, however (I suspect it is 255 characters), Pico 
inserts a line break, willy-nilly.  The browser displays this break as 
a space, if it occurs in text, and most browsers ignore it if it is in 
a URL.  Lynx, being more law-abiding than most, apparently chokes on 
the space.

My solution is to avoid editing with Pico, and to insert line breaks 
in those extended lines myself, if I have to use Pico on an HTML 
file.  When I have rid the file of all $s, then I can trust it again.

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