Apologies in advance if this is old news... but has anybody tried lynx on FreeDOS? I don't have an internet connection set up so I can't say I've given it a shot.
https://lynx.browser.org/ --- gge...@pm.me ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 at 8:31 AM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > I am afraid I do not follow you. > > I use DOS exclusively, and spend several hours a day on line using DOS > > exclusively. Sometimes from my DOS desktop, sometimes via sshdos, but I > > am using nothing but DOS. > > hardly meaningless to me. > > Still, since going online is indeed a critical part of computing, why has > > not the freedos community worked on creating its own browser and ssh > > tools? > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, andrea...@tiscali.it wrote: > > > Ok, it may seem like an archaeological work to look for dos eth. > > > > driver and in fact meaningless sense since you go online with other OS, > > > > But in using dos/freedos I believe that the possibility of going online > > > > is a basic problem. And this regardless of the limitations of browsers > > > > such as links and arachne which are well known. > > > > otherwise freedos will > > > > be a limited program, at least for common users > > > > Il 20.01.2021 01:41 > > > > Karen Lewellen ha scritto: > > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > I have no idea about pure > > > > > > freedos, but I can use the links browser for DOS > > > > > > in its full graphics > > > > > > mode to go on line in pure ms dos. > > > > > > It is not my preference, there are > > > > > > things about the browser which do not > > > > > > speak well, and it does not > > > > > > seem to support cookies. > > > > > > Still, I have no issues doing google > > > > > > searches, or reading some local > > > > > > news sites. > > > > > > If Links for DOS > > > > > > supported Cookies I would use it more, mainly I use > > > > > > sshdos to a shell > > > > > > service instead. > > > > > > Never tried Arachnid for the same lack of speech > > > > > > issues. > > > > > > Just my take, > > > > > > Karen > > > > > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Thomas Mueller > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, I wanted to ask a question about dos ethernet driver. > > > > > > > > > > I think it's one of the most satisfying thing using dos to go online. > > > > > > > > > > You know the problem: is to find ad load the driver you need, > > > > > especially > > > > > > > > > > for laptops. Ad it's very hard. For example I still use an old Acer > > > > > > > > > > aspire 1300 ad I load the Via fetpkt ethernet driver ( thanks to > > > > > George > > > > > > > > > > Potthast driver collection) and it work fine; so another Acer with > > > > > > > > > > Broadcom B44 odi. But maybe it is luck! Now I am trying to load a > > > > > diver > > > > > > > > > > for a toshiba satellite with Marvell Yukon eth.card: I found the > > > > > driver > > > > > > > > > > (yukodi driver) and it would seem to work, and system says it loaded > > > > > odi > > > > > > > > > > packet driver and so on, but neither Arachne no Link go up on > > > > > internet. > > > > > > > > > > I have a wattcp.cfg (My_ip = dhcp), as usual, but they fail. ( The > > > > > > > > > > laptop is good and goes up on internet with Slacko/puppy - I've > > > > > > > > > > partitioned HD). Any ideas? Or you think it's now too tiring and > > > > > useless > > > > > > > > > > to go online with dos? (I use pure freedos 1.2 and 1.3.) Thanks for > > > > > your > > > > > > > > > > interest. > > > > > > > > Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 30 4G hai minuti illimitati, > > > > > > > > > > 100 SMS e 30 Giga in 4G a soli 8,99⬠al mese. > > > > > http://tisca.li/smart30 > > > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > I remember seeing Glenn McCorkle's latest Arachne update on > > > > > > > > www.glennmcc.org [2] in March 2013 but never downloaded it because I > > > > > > > > woudn't have been able to use it. I have never been online with present > > > > > > > > computer using FreeDOS, haven't tried any other DOS; now online with > > > > > > > > NetBSD. Here is what NetBSD says about my Ethernet, from > > > > > > > > /var/run/dmesg.boot : re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8168/8111 > > > > > > > > PCIe Gigabit Ethernet (rev. 0x06) re0: interrupting at msix2 vec 0 re0: > > > > > > > > Ethernet address d4:3d:7e:97:17:e2 re0: using 256 tx descriptors So I > > > > > > > > use FreeDOS very infrequently. I wonder if there is any way I could go > > > > > > > > online with FreeDOS using PXE boot. I would be very limited in what I > > > > > > > > could do online with FreeDOS, but it would be nice to prove it can be > > > > > > > > done. Tom > > > > Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 30 4G hai minuti illimitati, 100 SMS e 30 Giga in > > 4G a soli 8,99€ al mese. http://tisca.li/smart30 > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
