>:>BUT at the shell account of my ISP, web-surfing is only possible with
>:>Lynx and text-mode. For about 6 months I have been more and more
>:>irritated not to be able to see frames, java, "cookies",
>:lynx accepts cookies
I should clarify: At present, cookies accepted by lynx are not persistent
across sessions.
>Maybe the ISP didn't go for the latest version. My ISP doesn't.
The current release is 2.7.2, and 2.8 is in Beta testing.
>lynx's most unforgiveable failing IMO is that it does not do tables.
Depends if they are specifically written to display with lynx in mind.
>:But, you could have had the best of both worlds. Why not just telnet into your
>:shell account during a PPP session? You're not going to read your mail while
>:surfing the 'Net, anyway. But you could with DOS in another Window.
>My ISP (who offers both shell and PPP) allows only one simultaneous login.
That's hardly an overuse of scarce resources. You're not initiating 2
simultaneous diallup sessions via different protocols.