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Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A455A828@emwatent02.meters.com.au>
From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: WebBoy (was: any new dos?)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:24:36 +1100
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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.
>    ---
>    -____________________________    _______________________________
>    -(    Alex Venn               )  (   Success has many fathers,   )
>    -(_)   aven AT ukgateway DOT net     (____)  but failure is an orphan.  (_)

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