Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 02:43:50 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000518024350.F16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:29:36PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net> <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst said on May 17, 2000 at 20:29:36:
> On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this?
>
> ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,slrn,pine}
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 367592 7 Nov 1999 /usr/local/bin/mutt*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2374520 5 Jun 1999 /usr/local/bin/pine*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 171532 2 Jan 21:20 /usr/local/bin/slrn*
>
> Pine is over four times bigger than my mail client and news client put
> together. Why?? From what I've seen, Pine is a featureless pile of
> junk. It doesn't even do colours or threading. How on earth is Pine
> over 2MB?? Is it entering the "most bloated communications program"
> competition alongside Outlook Express or something?
Well it does have a crude HTML parser, a built-in editor, and a
mechanism to directly send mail to a server via SMTP. And it's very
newbie-friendly. Also I think all the help pages are built into
the executable, rather than stored separately on the disk; but that
can't account for a 2 MB difference, it's true.
On that subject, why is lynx so much bloated than w3m? Apart from
slightly better cookie handling, what does it do that w3m doesn't?
And w3m does a lot of other things like tables and frames.
Rahul.
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