From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 11:58:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7054137B6C2 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70008 invoked by uid 100); 8 Feb 2001 19:57:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14978.64062.529223.881099@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:57:50 -0600 (CST) To: Tim McMillen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command prompt browser In-Reply-To: <5804815@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen types: > On Wednesday February 07, 2001 06:41, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:26:58AM -0800, dsf sdf wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > I have two question , which are as under > > > 1-Do you know about freebsd command prompt browser > > > like lynx on redhat. > > > > sure, lynx :-) > > /usr/ports/www/lynx > > lynx is the usual and it's been around a while, but I think links is > much better. It's text the same way as lynx but it renders tables, > much better. The FreeBSD website looks much better for example, in > links than lynx. Also if you're running X (maybe the console moused > does this I don't know), clicking on a text link in links actually > works. It's at /usr/ports/www/links There's also w3m. It renders tables & frames better than lynx, and unlike links there is a port with ssl. It also has the notion of "other" browsers, so it's easy to configure to launch your favorite GUI browser on a page if you need it. Finally, linemode - the CERN command line browser - is also in the ports. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message