From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 19 15:56:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25057 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25051 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman.concentric.net [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id SAA01586; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mlduke (ts003d12.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.72]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.8) id SAA11219; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 18:56:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <358AEDB2.5473@concentric.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:01:07 -0600 From: ML Duke Reply-To: mlduke@concentric.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: XDrAcOX@mci2000.COM CC: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Getting on the WWW... References: <358AC141.9B9F369D@mci2000.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org DrAcO wrote: > > I am very new to FreeBSD.... I have a question about getting on the WWW > from FreeBSD. How do you do it??? What program do you run. I dont > know how to set it up or anything. Could someone please help me??? Lynx is a text browser which has the advantage of being much faster than those with the graphical bells and whistles, but a disadvantage is that a lot of people who design web sites don't even _know_ there are people who use text only, and so they don't include alternate text with their graphics, which renders some sites completely useless. (i.e., "Link" tells you nothing) But, with x windows & Netscape, you can just jump to another terminal and have a look anyhow. Prior to the above you need ppp or pppd. This probably isn't a whole lot of help, but is just to let you know that what you need is available. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message