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From: "Mark in Clinton TWP.  MI.  USA" <MarWar AT Provide DOT net>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 10:05:58 +0500
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Subject: Re: WebBoy (was: any new dos?)
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Yes, I've used Nettamer to very limited success, and like the many choices
under lynx with lynx_kit being the most comprehensive.
    Yet still something is missing and a better more comprehensive choice
needs to be there and I've always thought that a web based site which would
convert any web page into text should work but it doesn't seem to be
developed yet I guess.  You have them for pdf to text but not others as far
as I am aware.
     But you still would want the site to be interactive where a web url
could be entered and what would happen is that the web site would be
converted into a functional page for easy use.

    JUst dreaming I guess but there once was a 3.1 browser named PW-Webspeak
and it did a good job of converting the sites into text and tags but it was
only 3.1 that I ever used and again you had to fire-up windows to browse.

      Mark


On 2001-11-20 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   -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-----
   -> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:06 AM
   -> 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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