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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.infosystems.www.users,alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: Lynx Marries Kermit!
Date: Wed, 03 May 95 01:36:24 MEZ
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In article <3nrr4o$p2m@nntp.crl.com>
tailor@crl.com (Victor Schneider) writes:
>
>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.
My powerful Toshiba T 1000 SE with Floppy (!) and D:\ Drive, should I buy
me another 1 Meg ram-drive ?...
>
>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,
>
I think thats about Doslynx, UKansas... Has anybody seen the bitter comment
on Cello..? Kermit and Lynx are nice, if you have colors...
>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?
>
Somebody from Minuet annonced to me, that the next Version of this exellent
Dos Programm, with nice gopher-client, will have a web-browser. Anyway,
Minuet is our thing, never got Kermit via Slip to work.
>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.
>
>
Tralala.
PS.: kermit.columbia.edu is terribly slow. Any mirrors ?????