On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 03:42:32PM -0500, Mark Bainter wrote:
>
> Why in the world would it be beneficial to have pre-compiled DOS and/or W32
> binaries available? This smells more like digging for trouble to me.
Lynx does it.
If I want to do some quick web browsing, and I'm stuck running W95 at
the time, it's real nice to be able to just pop open a DOS window and
run lynx.
The lynx-dev list does get a lot of silly requests for GUI things, but
they are just kindly reminded of the fact that lynx is different.
Mutt works great under Linux, of course, but things like MicroSoft tools
and RealAudio G2 don't. While I wish content providers and friends would
use Linux instead of Windows, the facts are what they are.
The only reason I'd like a DOS mutt is so when I'm stuck running W95, I
could pop open a DOS window and do a little email.
As it stands, I have to either:
- try to do email with some W95 GUI email thing
- shut down windows and boot linux, do email, then shut down linux and
boot windows to continue doing what I was doing.
- start up a PPP connection, run mutt on a remote *nix system,
and transfer any necessary/resulting files.
