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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:29:01 -0700
From: "Pedro Giffuni S," <giffunip@asme.org>
Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia
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Subject: Re: Can we erase the linemode browser port?
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It is a good idea to keep it if even only one person uses it. Anyway it
should be updated, libwww 5.0 includes a new version.

	Pedro.

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