Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Don Flowers
I use Dillo, but I accept and perhaps appreciate its limitations. By this I mean that when in FreeDOS, I am in a different "time zone" (1993?) and there were only so many things that you could do online back then in a DOS browser and whatever you could do was in a text browser so DILLO is definitel

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Mateusz Viste
I'm surprised you didn't mention Gopher as one of the things you when in your time machine :) That's one of the things I enjoy during my (Free)DOS sessions. BTW, how cool would it be to have a gopher interface to SF.net, like the one there is for wikipedia? Mateusz On 19/06/2015 12:53, Don

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Don Flowers
In 1988 I worked at Boeing Aerospace at Cape Canaveral in procurement and was responsible for online purchases from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base Exchange. I am trying to remember if we used a browser or if it was proprietary, but am drawing a blank. My machine was an HP 150. On Fri, Jun 19, 2

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread John Hupp
On 6/18/2015 11:17 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > Keep in mind that I'm not very savvy about networking, so this is just > links (no pun intended!) to various things! > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, John Hupp wrote: >> I installed Arachne on the current rig (Pentium 150, 64MB) and found >> that

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Louis Santillan
links/link2 have graphical modes as well [0]. [0] http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html#subch-running_in_graphics_mode On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:02 AM, John Hupp wrote: > On 6/18/2015 11:17 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Keep in mind that I'm not very savvy about networking, so this is just

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:02 AM, John Hupp wrote: > > The Ibiblio Lynx is just another mirror of the source, not a ready-to-go > binary. Okay, I didn't try it, so I don't know. Obviously I could mirror Juan's port of 2.8.8, but there are already several DJGPP mirrors. > At a glance, I didn

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > I'm surprised you didn't mention Gopher as one of the things you when in > your time machine :) That's one of the things I enjoy during my > (Free)DOS sessions. Not relevant to DOS, but if you use Firefox, SeaMonkey, or TenFourFox as your br