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From: agm@cais3.cais.com (Adam Guasch-Melendez)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.infosystems.www.users,alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: Lynx Marries Kermit! (Why not?)
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Date: 29 Apr 1995 11:18:02 GMT
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Jim Monty (monty@indirect.com) wrote:
-- snip, snip --
: 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'd never ask Santa for
: anything else ever again. Am I the only luser who sees the wisdom of
: porting Lynx to MS-DOS and using it in tandem with Kermit and its built-in
: TCP/IP? Is it simply not possible? Is there no curses for MS-DOS? If it
: is possible, would the port be a huge undertaking? I read these
: newsgroups regularly, and I've never seen anyone even mention what seems
: to me the logical next step in the development of text-based Web
: browsers: a Lynx for the little guy. What am I missing?
Lynx *is* available for DOS - I have a copy, which I use for previewing
my own HTML docs (along with three or four graphics browsers). Since I
use Windoze software for my PPP connection, I haven't actually run
DOSLynx (yes, that's the name) on the net, but I assume it works fairly well.
I can't remember where I picked it up, but here are two places to look:
1) Yahoo (of course)
2) University of Kansas home page (they created Lynx)
Here's *my* wish - Lynx for Windoze.