From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 11 14:26:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08481 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (dburr@pm0-1.sba1.avtel.net [207.71.218.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08472 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03832; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3440035A.678@asme.org> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Starfleet Command From: Donald Burr To: "Pedro Giffuni S," Subject: RE: Can we erase the linemode browser port? Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, sa2c@and.or.jp Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----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 - 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-----