Message-Id: <200111241505.fAOF5tl24731@dns1.provide.net> X-Spam-Filter: check_local AT dns1 DOT provide DOT net by digitalanswers.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: From: "Mark in Clinton TWP. MI. USA" Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 10:05:58 +0500 X-Mailer: Net-Tamer 1.13 Beta Subject: Re: WebBoy (was: any new dos?) Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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. -> --- -> -____________________________ ->_______________________________ -( Alex Venn ->) ( Success has many fathers, ) -(_) aven AT ukgateway DOT net -(____) but failure is an orphan. (_)