Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/20/15:04:30
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>Is it just me, or does everyone have problems with
>accessing caldera's web pages via LYNX. I connected to them and
>the status line said "Read 512 bytes of 3940" or something like
>that, then "Read 2048...", then went up and up to
>"Read 3942 bytes of 3940" and then froze until I hit the Z key to
>stop it. Nothing was displayed. Lynx didn't freeze, just the
>page download froze. If you didn't notice, the amount downloaded
>exceeded the amount listed as the total by 2 bytes. This
>happened on ALL caldera's pages that I tried to access and only
>in Lynx. I tried Netscape and it worked fine.
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>What is this "everything has to be graphical and incompatible
>with text browsers" concept? I've got no problems making
>personal webpages that are complicated, yet still support LYNX.
>Even ones with image maps still work. Just not Caldera's. I
>checked this out on 16 different UNIX hosts all running different
>versions of LYNX too, so it is not just my machine and is not
>just LYNX. I haven't analyzed their page source, but don't feel
>I should have to.
All Caldera pages load correctly for me. I use Lynx v2.7 and
(occasionally) Lynx v2.3.2beta.
>I just tried to access the page listed as where the source for OD
>is, and I got a blank page that said:
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>[LINK]
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>And that is it!!!!!!!!! I'm almost positive that if I look at it
>in Netscape, it will be full of graphics that take 30 minutes to
>download.
Hmmm. The OD source? Last time I checked its supposed location, I got a 404.
>Please pardon my frustration, but I'm frustrated! Come on
>Caldera! Support text mode! OpenDOS is text mode!
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