Re: No Bugs is Good Bugs

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Wed, 1 May 1996 23:45:04 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 1 May 1996, John A. Stanley wrote:

> In article <WFCixoHpvasS089yn@skypoint.com>,
> rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) wrote:
> >Here in list.yarn, jstanley@gate.net (John A. Stanley) spake unto us,
> >saying:
> >
> >><sigh>... It's just not worth it when Lynx is your only web browser.
> >
> >Why? I use Lynx/2 here a LOT, and it downloads files from web sites
> >and FTP sites rather well.
>
> I've seen web sites on lynx and Netscape, and half the info
> seems missing with Lynx. Dunno 'bout this Lynx/2 stuff; I'm
> talking about the one I access at the Unix prompt on my shell
> account. I will admit, though, that I had no problems dl'ing
> nnign.zip from his web page using Lynx.

Lynx/2 is an OS/2 port of the UNIX Lynx you're probably using. Yeah,
there's a lot of Netscape-specific crap out there on web sites, and some
folks overdo the graphics. But I still find Lynx useful for a lot of
things, mostly because it's so FAST. :-)

Text mode is good.

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