[lug] browser via telnet sessions?!

[Ken Scott]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rob Mohr wrote:

> Hola! 
> 
> My ISP recently did an upgrade to Sun Solaris 5.++ and it cause me some
> grief when my email got jazzed in the .pinerc file.  After some
> consternation, I got that fixed.  But I may have found a neat perl in that
> mess.
> 
> The new version of Pine is close to the old.  I don't knwo why or what
> they wanted to fix.  A few things have changed.  But interesting to me,
> there is now a utility for viewing gif and tiff files.  My ISP is looking
> to see what that utility is called.  Also, Pine is now prompting me to
> "select browser...ect" when it hits on html code.  Since that line, too,
> is blank on my .pinerc file, I have yet to try this out.  
> 
> But I am a bit nonplussed by this new version of Pine.  Does anyone on the
> list run a 'net browser via a telnet session?  
> 

This is what lynx is designed for... and it works pretty well, depending
on how graphics-intensive the site is.

Ken

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