Date: Sun, 20 Apr 97 12:54:35 MDT
Message-Id: <9704201854.AA04489@rgfn.epcc.Edu>
From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Jason M. Daniels)
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Subject: Re: Caldera's webpages.
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-To: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu
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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.
>
>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:
>
>[LINK]
>
>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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