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Subject: Re: [opendos] Caldera licenses Arachne
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:40:27 +0100
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> > Aren't there sources of Lynx we can port?
> > Or is Lynx already ported to DOS?
> 
> It's been done at least once.
> Wayne Buttles has ported Lynx 2.7 and also made a smaller combination of 
> Lynx 2.4 and DOSLynx to produce Bobcat. I've only tried Bobcat and it 
> works pretty well in pure text mode although it can spawn all sorts of 
> things if you're so inclined. Try these:
> 
> www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm label force
> www.fdisk.com/doslynx/bobcats/ file=bcs.htm label force
> 
> Frankly, I prefer Bobcat to Arachne and I'd have thought that a 
> text-mode browser would have been more use to the sight-impaired, who 
> appear to be big DOS users.

Of course they are big DOS users, I know of no options in any GUI-based OS
that'll let a speech syntesizer work.
I think that should be implemented if someone (ever) writes a GUI for
OpenDOS.

	Yeep