Re: [Rule-list] links web browser [not lynx] has text & graphics versions

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Thursday 28 November 2002 02:15 am, Eugene Wong wrote:
> From: Michael Fratoni <address@hidden>
> <snip>
>
> >The Red Hat included (e)links is a text only browser.
>
> Well, the link that I provided was only for links. elinks didn't seem
> ready for distribution, so I didn't bother sending info or links.
>
> Did you type "elinks -g" to go into graphics mode? I don't know if they
> have a graphics mode, or what, but I assumed that they wouldn't have
> gotten rid of it, and links requires us to use -g at the command line,
> and it would be strange to have 2 browsers called elinks.

Red Hat replaced the links package with elinks. 
I checked, it's text only. I didn't bother to look at the source and see 
if it has a configure switch to enable graphics. The -g command line 
option results in an error.

Here is what the package says:
$ rpm -qip 
/home/mfratoni/devel/dist-8.0/stock/RedHat/RPMS/elinks-0.3.2-1.i386.rpm
Name        : elinks                       Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 0.3.2                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Tue 20 Aug 2002 
Summary     : A text-mode Web browser.
Description :
Links is a text-based Web browser. Links does not display any images,
but does support tables and most other HTML tags. The advantage
Links has over graphical browsers is its speed -- Links starts and
exits quickly and swiftly displays webpages.

The elinks package contains the enhanced Links (elinks) program.


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