From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 11 00:24:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF6623C; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475332E8; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-31-80.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.31.80]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBD93CAB8; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:24:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id r0B0Og77003007; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:24:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:24:42 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console Message-Id: <20130111012442.2bd609c8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <06ff01cdef8e$1990b1c0$4cb21540$@freebsd.org> References: <50EF0F2B.1030801@a1poweruser.com> <20130110233325.783e1d42.freebsd@edvax.de> <06da01cdef84$9f327ca0$dd9775e0$@freebsd.org> <20130111004126.8abe07ce.freebsd@edvax.de> <06ff01cdef8e$1990b1c0$4cb21540$@freebsd.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:24:41 -0000 On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:56:24 -0800, dteske@freebsd.org wrote: > Ok, the reason I ask is actually because I have this insane (?) idea of shoving > one of the aforementioned solutions onto the installation media so that (gasp) > we can have that functionality back like we had in the days of sysinstall. So my stupid brain remembered something that actually has happened? A text mode browser in the default installation? Called /usr/bin/lynx maybe? It must be a long time ago... > So naturally, my first question is "which one?" The UNIX philosophy suggests to use one that is sufficient for the purpose. A look at dependencies would be useful. >From that point of view, lynx seems to be okay, as it will do all the things which are required: Render the HTML in a readable manner, make the hyperreferences accessible, evenprovide NLS if the installation has a requirement for that (newbie non-US users probably will find that feature useful), no dependencies regarding graphics hardware, so it will even work on a serial terminal (when in use at a museum) or via SSH if urgently needed. However, it seems that lynx does not support UTF-8, but again, that doesn't matter, as there is no such content in the documents, and it doesn't work in text mode anyway. And if you need a transparent background, clean your terminal. :-) It would also be possible to use w3m with ja- users in mind, disabling the "inline image" functions to get rid of x11, fb, and gtk2 dependencies. If desired, w3m can use the lynx keyboard map. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...