Mail Archives: opendos/2001/11/19/20:20:11
WebBoy, Arachne, DR-Webspyder, Skipper (AFAIK) are all graphical web
browsers for DOS. If you want text based, perhaps a DOS port of Lynx is
more to your liking, perhaps Nettamer as well. Have a look at
"www.fdisk.com"
and "www.browser.org" for links to various DOS browsers ...
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark in Clinton TWP. MI. USA [SMTP:MarWar AT Provide DOT net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:06 AM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: WebBoy (was: any new dos?)
>
>
> Well, is Webboy text or not, I assume not?
> Also, do you have a ftp for Arachne? I would rather use text based
> browsers however have another user who rather likes the point and click
> and
> something dos based would be great not depending on w311.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 2001-11-19 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
> -In article <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A455A81D AT emwatent02.
> -meters.com.au> you write:
> -> As far as I know, no English edition of V4 has been released,
> -> although there is an English edition of V3 available (this version
> -> did not support Javascript, though). So, you would need the
> -> help of someone versed in Japanese to install this, after which
> -> you should be able to operate it via the icons).
> -I wish whoever tries it luck. I had a couple of goes at installing
> -the V3 from the Japanese site and it always ended up with a blank
> -screen. Maybe there is more to it than running the install batch
> -file :( On the other hand, if anybody does succeed, I'd be
> -interested in finding out what it takes.
> -....
> -> BTW, a derivative of WebBoy V3 is still available, in several
> -languages > (including English), see
> -"http://webboy.aleph.com.br/index.html".
> -This one does install OK and it works pretty well too (as a viewer
> -at least, although the inability of passing a filename is a downer),
> -but so far Arachne still rules.
> -Alex.
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