[lug] browser via telnet sessions?!

[Ralf Mattes]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Mike Vigorita wrote:

> The only one I'm aware of (and periodically use) is Lynx.  Essentially, it's
> just a text based browser.  You cannot see graphics, only text.
> 
> It's real nice when I'm at home, and want to D/L a big file from a WWW site.
> I just telnet into my school account; use Lynx to D/L the file to the school
> server; then copy it to a Zip disk the next day from work...
> 

Well, there's also w3m. From the w3m homepage 
(http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/FAQ):

:  w3m is a pager/text-based WWW browser. It is a similar application to Lynx, 
:  but it has several features Lynx doesn't have. 
:  
:         -w3m can render table. 
:         -w3m can render frame. (it converts the frames into a table) 
:         -w3m can display documents given from standard input easily. 
:         -w3m is small. Binary size of w3m on Sparc workstation is under 
:          300KByte. (version beta-990512,gcc -O2). 

It's a bit 'younger' than lynx so expect some bugs but the
table feature sometimes is very helpfull. 
Lynx has a lot of good featuers but sometimes also has some strange
'atitudes' ... :-) And of course ther's also (x)emacs w3 mode.

 Ralf 
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