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Title: Text browser
Post by: Colin Mattoon on December 06, 1999, 07:26:23 PM

Hi:

I just noticed, while testing a workstation, that the forum here can not be accessed with the Lynx browser...at least, not with the Lynx browser I was using.

With Netscape, user's bulletin board is displayed between e-smith.org and download.  With Lynx, user's bulletin board does not appear.

Known problem?

Colin Mattoon

Title: RE: Text browser
Post by: Joseph Morrison on December 06, 1999, 10:00:20 PM

Hi Colin,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! We'll fix it shortly. (We rearranged our web site and forgot to test with Lynx.)

Best regards,
- Joe

Title: RE: Text browser
Post by: Charlie Brady on December 07, 1999, 10:16:05 AM

Colin Mattoon wrote:

> With Netscape, user's bulletin board is displayed between
> e-smith.org and download.  With Lynx, user's bulletin board
> does not appear.
>
> Known problem?

Well spotted.

You might like to try another text mode browser. Grab the RPM
for w3m from http://e-smith.gormand.com.au/ if you do. It handles frames and tables better than lynx does, IMO.

Charlie

Title: RE: Text browser
Post by: Colin Mattoon on December 07, 1999, 06:18:23 PM

Charlie:

I might get a chance to check that out later this week, thanks.  I am using Lynx to test  an idea for our telephone answering service operators to use basic Linux boxes to send alpha-numeric paging messages via the web, rather than with dialup dedicated alpha terminals.  Lynx is OK, but a bit "stark" to most Windows users...

Colin Mattoon

Title: RE: Text browser
Post by: Colin Mattoon on December 08, 1999, 10:54:34 AM

And now it's working...I got here with Lynx...