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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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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. - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBND/u8fjpixuAwagxAQEeyQP/fMw8Fp/U5jAaezPpm/r/WXe7LsMnMPEl F/Si3YDzIHeXq37R95sxGtXQbhuAZGcD8jENcEb8ICDxG4/O+4khlDzB8Bh6Qaf0 WshmUzK0QK98mzkh+7QwEnJq6saQDaGiZAG1kz/kWlYgFlhmKBhaBc7kJ7uX5nHo IGPd4bKnMiM= =FhUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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