Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:13:00 -700
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Browsers -- Bobcat
On 2001-06-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Sam Heywood> said:
>Wayne Buttles is the current primary developer of DosLynx, as well
>as Bobcat and several other Lynx ports. Due to technical
>difficulties, DosLynx development is currently at a stand-still.
>Bobcat, a derivative of the much more capable Unix Lynx, is Wayne's
>primary DOS focus at present, and should be downloaded and tried by
>anyone needing a DOS web browser. In general, it appears to be
>faster and more reliable than DosLynx, and supports forms, which
>the newest versions of DosLynx do only to a very limited extent.
Before I bought Net-Tamer some years ago, I remember trying out an
early version of Bobcat -- I got it going after a lot of trouble, but
it was pretty weak. So I was curious to try out the latest version
of Bobcat, which now works much more easily, and it only took me
about an hour to get it to dialup properly (after fiddling with
the dialup script). I have to admit that Bobcat parses web pages
much neater than Net-Tamer, except I don't believe that Minuet's
price tag ($50.00) makes up for the e-mail/news capabilities
combined in Net-Tamer. Nonetheless, I set up Bobcat for DOS
web browsing and will probably use it more for that than I would
with Net-Tamer. Although it's a lot less convenient, it *is*
possible for me to view and send/reply to e-mail on my ISP, which
has Web e-mail access, with Bobcat.
Of course, it's hard to match what Net-Tamer does with such a small
amount of resources! ;-)
Thanks for pointing me to Bobcat again... it's certainly about the
best example (along with Doslynx) of what can be done with plain
text, the Web and DOS.
Jerry... on his IBM PS/2 Model 30 / 286 | My laptop computer's a
***** 33.6kbps/30MB HD/1 MB RAM/10MHz | Tandy TRS-80 Model 100
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Registered
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