On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:28:30PM +0300, Cristian Burneci wrote: > Graphical Links 2.0 ? This made me curious. Fired Google and found the > link: > > http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links > > (I hope the link is the right one) > > I downloaded the source package and built it. The system used was the > rickety old, Slackware 4.0 based, Winlinux 2000 beta (don't get fooled by > its name). Prior to the building operation, I had enabled the Javascript > and SSL support (Links uses the OpenSSL library). The process went smootly > and, to my suprise, the result was a SINGLE file containing everything > (more than 3MB big, but, still a single file). >
You can also download dynamic and statically linked binaries from the download mirror and They are huge. The dynamic one is about 4 Mbytes and the statically-linked is more than 6 Mbyte. My machine is 4 RAM and I hesitate to download for fear it will not work. > It is Links allright with his well known interface, but fully graphical. > > First tests: > -I was able to access my Yahoo account (with its secure access > issues.) > -I was able to manage my "dhptech" account (secure web interface) > -It was able to see the first page at mail.rol.ro which also contains a > weird login form. > > I could not test the svgalib mode (I lack svgalib on this > Linux installation), only the X-based graphic mode But Slackware 4 should have SVGAlib. I hope you can try out the precompiled binaries with SVGAlib and let us know how it is.
