Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works (John Hupp)

2015-06-25 Thread John Hupp
On 6/25/2015 3:54 PM, Georg Potthast wrote: > I tried it again with Dillo for DOS: > >> http://www.google.com/accessibility/labs/search reports that it is no >> longer supported, and if you try to use it anyway, it fails. > Yes, it tells its no longer supported but it works ok for me. > >> I tried

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works (John Hupp)

2015-06-25 Thread Georg Potthast
I tried it again with Dillo for DOS: > > http://www.google.com/accessibility/labs/search reports that it is no > longer supported, and if you try to use it anyway, it fails. Yes, it tells its no longer supported but it works ok for me. > > I tried the Ron's-Google-page simple form approach (alth

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

2015-06-25 Thread John Hupp
On 6/20/2015 5:22 AM, Georg Potthast wrote: > Google checks the user agent string the browser returns to determine what > features the browser supports. Then it decides what type of page it sends to > the browser. > > With Dillo the user agent string can be set in the dillorc file. Since it > repor

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

2015-06-22 Thread John Hupp
Thanks especially to Rugxulo and Louis Santillan for persevering with me on the topic of Links' graphical mode. In a quick test I find that scrolling is smooth and the hard drive is not working hard. I also want to test Georg Potthast's tips for using simpler Google search pages. If one of th

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

2015-06-20 Thread John Hupp
On 6/20/2015 5:22 AM, Georg Potthast wrote: > Google checks the user agent string the browser returns to determine what > features the browser supports. Then it decides what type of page it sends to > the browser. > > With Dillo the user agent string can be set in the dillorc file. Since it > repor

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

2015-06-20 Thread Georg Potthast
Google checks the user agent string the browser returns to determine what features the browser supports. Then it decides what type of page it sends to the browser. With Dillo the user agent string can be set in the dillorc file. Since it reports Dillo as the browser Google puts it into the unko

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

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 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 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 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 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
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

2015-06-18 Thread Rugxulo
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 Google search returns a blank page, and DuckDuc

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

2015-06-18 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, John Hupp wrote: > So I tried Dillo, which is graphical. Though it thrashes the hard drive > a fair amount, it did work in a quick checkout. This was v3.02b from > http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/DILLODOS-302b.zip, > written by

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

2015-06-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Granted I cannot speak to your setup. Still lynx is at 2.9.dev6 or so, at least for the most current. There may not be a dos port at that level however. On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, John Hupp wrote: > I installed Arachne on the current rig (Pentium 150, 64MB) and found > that Google search returns a bl