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From: tailor@crl.com (Victor Schneider)
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Subject: Re: Lynx Marries Kermit! (Why not?)
Date: 28 Apr 1995 22:44:40 GMT
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In article <D7qK98.AD2@indirect.com>, monty@indirect.com says...
>
>From my powerful 20 MHz i80386 PC with the deluxe 40 MB hard drive, I
>connect to my local ISP using MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 PL3 and the SLIP8250
>packet driver.
Do us all a favor, will you, and post URLs where these two programs can
be gotten.
> I then telnet to my BSD/OS 2.0 UNIX shell account, usually
>establishing several simultaneous sessions. From there, I read mail with
>elm, USENET news with tin, and, most importantly, browse the Web with
>Lynx--all at breakneck speed, _sans_ annoying pictures, and without ever
>having to take my fingers off the home row keys (like to click a mouse).
>
>Ah, MS-DOS Kermit and Lynx! Life doesn't get any better than that! Or
>does it? If I could run Lynx on my PC--the _real_ Lynx for cursor-
>addressable, character-cell, "curses-oriented" display devices, not some
>TurboVision pretender--over a SLIP connection,
The problem is that the TurboVision pretender isn't the same program as
Lynx and was developed as some kind of afterthought, with the notion that
Dos is obsolescent and UNIX is not. What they need to do, and obviously
haven't done, is to use the Lynx UNIX code to generate the Dos version of
the program. And, if they are an academic outfit, the code ought to be
well enough organized to allow this.
>browsers: a Lynx for the little guy. What am I missing?
You're not missing anything except the lobby of those people with a vested
interest in selling constantly larger and more elaborate computer systems
to people.
>If I'm preachin' to the choir, let me hear ya sing!
I'm a soloist, myself.
>sincerely appreciated. TIA.
No need for profanity here.