Symptom: Attempts to access www.google.com using Lynx result in the error, “Google Error Bad Request” or “400 Bad Request”.

Cause: Some Linux distributions ship with a large /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap file that Lynx is using to send a huge Accept: header and google doesn’t like it.

Fix: In /etc/lynx.cfg, edit

"GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/etc/mailcap" to "GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/dev/null"
or
"PERSONAL_MAILCAP:~/.mailcap" to "PERSONAL_MAILCAP:/dev/null"

as appropriate (depending on which mailcap file is causing the grief).

The file formats for the Palm Desktop files below can be found here .

• datebook.dat and datebook.dba
• memopad.dat and memopad.mpa
• address.dat and address.aba
• todo.dat and todo.tda
• users.dat

These formats apply to the Windows version of the PalmOS Desktop software, not to the native versions of these files.

Programming information on how to go about reading the Palm Desktop files can be found here. There are several user submitted code examples in various languages, such as Perl, Java, Python and Visual Basic.