Re: [Freedos-user] [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.17

2018-03-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Karen Lewellen and Rugxulo: > > There was a specific lynx package written by dug Kaufman that I may request > > be updated. > I don't think he's still active, but I could be wrong. Doug Kaufman's web page is still up, but his Lynx is pretty old: The latest DOS port of lynx is 2.8.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on hp computers?

2018-03-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
Most of HP's work is writting code for inside printers, etc. Most likely machine code which is closer to being dos than WINDOWS. If a newbee can't handle dos he's probably not worth keeping. Alot of companies hire 100 newbees but really only plan to keep 50. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the co

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on hp computers?

2018-03-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
The tablets I buy work for awhile then fail. Each new tablet with a newer Android version works very well for awhile. The world changes and you need a newer version to accept those changes. I'm up to version 7 which has been working for quite awhile now. It might be the last one - I hope. Its like

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on hp computers?

2018-03-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
Personally I find DOS very useful. The main drawback is the lack of software being produced. New machines are amazing but the average little guy has few uses for so much power. Its good for the IRS, Ford, GM and other big guys but the average guy doesn't need so much power. 99.9% of a new computers

Re: [Freedos-user] [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.17

2018-03-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I have a former IBM engineer who builds and maintains all of my computers as > I run Dos exclusively. Yes, I knew you ran MS-DOS, you've mentioned it before. :-) I'm glad somebody is willing to help. Things like this are a bit t

Re: [Freedos-user] [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.17

2018-03-22 Thread Zbigniew
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:58:47PM -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > Yes, Lynx will presumably run under native DOS Even, if it will - the days when we could use Lynx for browsing Web contents are long gone. Java everywhere... :( and even without this if site's pages haven't been designed to be Lynx-friend