From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 18:04:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14602 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail (mail.bcpl.lib.md.us [204.255.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA14597 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp28.bcpl.lib.md.us by mail (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA27091; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 21:04:26 +0500 Received: by ppp28.bcpl.lib.md.us with Microsoft Mail id <01BB6B7E.985E7880@ppp28.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 21:03:34 -0400 Message-Id: <01BB6B7E.985E7880@ppp28.bcpl.lib.md.us> From: Anil John To: "'James Raynard'" Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Netscape & FreeBSD Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 21:03:33 -0400 Encoding: 14 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James Raynard[SMTP:fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk] wrote: >> This is probably a !@#$@ question but here goes :) >> Do you need to be running X in order to use Netscape with FreeBSD ? > >Yes. If you want a text-mode browser, lynx is good (it can even >download graphics to view later). If it's the flashy "extras" you're >after, you're probably stuck. > I am running Lynx right now and it does the job for me. I really don't run X on my FreeBSD machine right now since I seem to get things done faster in test mode :), but I was curious... Thanks to all who replied... Anil