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From: monty@indirect.com (Jim Monty)
Subject: Re: Lynx Marries Kermit! (Why not?)
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On 29 Apr 1995 11:18:02 GMT, Adam Guasch-Melendez (agm@cais3.cais.com) wrote:
> 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).
DOSLYNX is the "TurboVision pretender" to which I alluded in my post. At
least on the surface, DOSLYNX isn't the same program as Lynx at all. The
TurboVision ANSI-graphic menu interface of DOSLYNX is wholly unlike the
curses-based ASCII Lynx browser. In a nutshell, I like Lynx a lot, but I
don't like DOSLYNX at all.
> 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.
A mistaken assumption. It hardly works at all. DOSLYNX "hangs" my system
almost every time I try to use it. And it's dog slow. And butt-ugly. (Did
I mention I don't like DOSLYNX?)
I was actually hoping to see a response from Frank and/or Joe to my post.
I'm mostly interested in knowing the answer to the question, "Is it
possible to port the curses-based Lynx browser to MS-DOS?" I'm not asking
them to do it; I'm just posing the question of its feasibility.
---
Jim Monty
monty@indirect.com
Tempe, Arizona USA