Bill Leach wrote:

> I'm in danger of displaying and attitude here...  I use netscape but
> consider it to be the worst piece of software that I have on any Linux
> box of mine.  GUI web browsers that I have used on Linux are all junk
> in my opinion!
>

using netscape with all the known but unsolved crashes and bus errors i feel 
like
workin with m$ software...

>
> Lynx OTOH is a "typical" UNIX program.  I have never seen Lynx crash,
> hang, or fail in any way and have never heard anyone else claim that
> it has for them.
>
> Lynx help is VERY good.  The help and keystroke pages are treated just
> like any other "web page" except that there is no waiting for a response!
> For all the years that I have used Lynx, I have to admit that so far
> I have not even scratched the capability of that program.
>
> You can search the help pages with "/key string" which can be quite
> handy.
>
> Probably the biggest problem for people used to netscape type browsers
> is that Lynx with do everything that they do (sans waste bandwidth
> downloading huge, and usually useless, graphic images) and a whole lot
> more but things are done in a "different" way.
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:07:11AM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote:
> > Doug Young wrote:
>

well, as im writing similar to Doug in an other thread on pmail i didn't go 
into this
further.

 gerhard

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