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