Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:14:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. BARTLETT" To: opendos Subject: Re: Graphical WWW Browser for DOS? In-Reply-To: <02110101432625/0001178863DP1EM@mcimail.com> Message-ID: X-PGP-key: ftp://ftp.smart.net/pub/bartlett/pgpkey X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Gary Welles wrote: > [snip] > Before reviving a dead mouse, you might consider if you are first > desperate enough to do what it takes to get one of these browsers > working. Well, yes, you might say I am desperate enough to get a browser working under MS-DOS. My large Win98 box is entirely out of service, and it might be a month before I get it fixed, even if it is fixable (I'm not sure at this point). On this oooold machine I can dial into my ISP's Linux shell account to read mail and netnews, but I do need at least a basic www browser. > From a 386/DX with a "PS/2-Style" mouse port and DOS, I've gotten > NCSA X-Mosiac, Opera, Netscape and DR-WebSpyder, up and running > all with varying degrees of pain. I've just tried to get Arachne > working and it all came back to me. Yesterday I installed Arachne 1.70, and it seemed pretty straightforward. I still need to get an IP address from my ISP, which Internut Exploder and Nutscrape seem not to need. I was able to do that much with just a TAB key. I have yet to read all the Help, though. > Easy enough to say "yes, you can do that". If you do, please let > us know how it goes. Will do. If I get the right info from my ISP, I should get it up over the weekend. From what I now know, it will be pretty slow on this tired machine, but that is better than nothing. Incidentally, after being on Win98 for the last three and a half years, I forgot what DOS was like. I have NDOS installed as a command processor, and that along with NANSI.SYS enabled me to set up a good menuing interface. I even have the more powerful machine dual bootable into Win98 or DR-DOS 7, but I could not get Procomm Plus / DOS installed: CPU is too fast (at least I suppose that is what the problem is. Also, the fast machine has only a cheesy winmodem. -- Paul Bartlett bartlett AT smart DOT net PGP key info in message headers