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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:24:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
To:        "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, sa2c@and.or.jp
Subject:   RE: Can we erase the linemode browser port?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971011142612.dburr@POBoxes.com>
In-Reply-To: <3440035A.678@asme.org>

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My secret spy satellite informs me that on 11-Oct-97, Pedro Giffuni S,
wrote:

>AFAIK, no one uses this since everyone prefers Lynx. Also this hasn't
>been updated since a long time and it keeps the old 4.0 libwww
>distribution bloating the distfiles.
>Maybe a VM/CMS user may want to update it to navigate using telnet? ;-)

Actually the linemode browser is very useful for automating web stuff
through shell/Perl/etc. scripts.  I've seen scripts that use linemode to
do all sorts of crazy stuff, like automatically posting data into a web
form, mirroring a web site, and various other things.

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