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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 04:39:23 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 347

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Thursday 17 October 2002
 Number  347
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : xyzyx" <xyzyx at inbox.lv>
2  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
3  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
4  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Illya Vaes <illya at vaeshiep.demon.nl>
5  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Christian Hennecke" <christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
6  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Michel Such" <msuch at free.fr>
7  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Christian Hennecke" <christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
8  Re:  Lynx|Links (was: gcc 3.0.4) : Illya Vaes <illya at vaeshiep.demon.nl>
9  Re:  gcc 3.0.4 : Andrew Belov" <andrew_belov at newmail.ru>

**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:39:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:  "xyzyx" <xyzyx at inbox.lv>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:28:07 GMT+1, Illya Vaes wrote:

>** Reply to note from "Christian Hennecke"   
><christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:43:37 +0200 (CEST) 
>>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:08:39 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: 
>>>I've just spotted gcc 3.0.4 in Hobbes incoming. Does anyone know anything  
>>>about it? It isn't a port from Andrew Zabolotny, and I don't know if it is  
>>>based on his changes for 3.0.3. 
>>It's from the guy who created the excellent Links text-mode browser. 
> 
>That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse). 

Actually, it is "Links" :)  Check http://links.sourceforge.net

Paul

**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:21:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:  "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Christian Hennecke wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:28:07 GMT+1, Illya Vaes wrote:
>
> >** Reply to note from "Christian Hennecke"
> ><christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:43:37 +0200 (CEST)
> >>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:08:39 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
> >>>I've just spotted gcc 3.0.4 in Hobbes incoming. Does anyone know anything
> >>>about it? It isn't a port from Andrew Zabolotny, and I don't know if it is
> >>>based on his changes for 3.0.3.
> >>It's from the guy who created the excellent Links text-mode browser.
> >
> >That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse).
>
> Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than
> Lynx. It supports tables and frames.

using that sort of logic, they're better than each other, since there
are things that each does better than the other.

(links has a long way to go before I would recommend it as an example of
how to write programs)

-- 
T.E.Dickey <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net


**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:47:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:  "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Christian Hennecke wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:21:23 -0400 (EDT), Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>
> >> Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than
> >> Lynx. It supports tables and frames.
> >
> >using that sort of logic, they're better than each other, since there
> >are things that each does better than the other.
> >
> >(links has a long way to go before I would recommend it as an example of
> >how to write programs)
>
> That's possibly true, but the fact is that Links is the better browser
> if one wants to view "modern" web pages. In many cases, using Lynx
> results in having to play detective and find out what belongs where.
> That's why I quit using Lynx and switched to Links myself.

It depends on what you view.  Since links often fails to display pages
that lynx or w3m handle (and the reverse is rarely true), relies on
hardcoded behavior for displaying colors, etc., (and having looked at the
underlying code), my attitude toward links is to run it only for testing
purposes.

-- 
T.E.Dickey <dickey at herndon4.his.com>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net


**= Email   4 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:28:07 GMT+1
From:  Illya Vaes <illya at vaeshiep.demon.nl>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

** Reply to note from "Christian Hennecke"   
<christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:43:37 +0200 (CEST) 
>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:08:39 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: 
>>I've just spotted gcc 3.0.4 in Hobbes incoming. Does anyone know anything  
>>about it? It isn't a port from Andrew Zabolotny, and I don't know if it is  
>>based on his changes for 3.0.3. 
>It's from the guy who created the excellent Links text-mode browser. 
 
That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse). 

--
Illya Vaes       (illya at vaeshiep.demon.nl)
"Do...or do not, there is no 'try'" - Yoda

**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:17:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:  "Christian Hennecke" <christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:28:07 GMT+1, Illya Vaes wrote:

>** Reply to note from "Christian Hennecke"   
><christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:43:37 +0200 (CEST) 
>>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:08:39 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: 
>>>I've just spotted gcc 3.0.4 in Hobbes incoming. Does anyone know anything  
>>>about it? It isn't a port from Andrew Zabolotny, and I don't know if it is  
>>>based on his changes for 3.0.3. 
>>It's from the guy who created the excellent Links text-mode browser. 
> 
>That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse). 

Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than
Lynx. It supports tables and frames.

Christian Hennecke


**= Email   6 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:38:39 +0100 (CET)
From:  "Michel Such" <msuch at free.fr>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:17:46 +0200 (CEST), Christian Hennecke wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:28:07 GMT+1, Illya Vaes wrote:
>
>>** Reply to note from "Christian Hennecke"   
>><christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:43:37 +0200 (CEST) 
>>>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:08:39 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: 
>>>>I've just spotted gcc 3.0.4 in Hobbes incoming. Does anyone know anything  
>>>>about it? It isn't a port from Andrew Zabolotny, and I don't know if it is  
>>>>based on his changes for 3.0.3. 
>>>It's from the guy who created the excellent Links text-mode browser. 
>> 
>>That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse). 
>
>Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than
>Lynx. It supports tables and frames.
>
Another great difference with Lynx is that I never succeeded to have
any of its versions working on my machines.
Maybe I missed something. If someone knows how to set it up...
>Christian Hennecke
>
>
>

		
Michel SUCH - Team OS/2 France - msuch at free.fr
ICQ # 51654489


**= Email   7 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:32:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:  "Christian Hennecke" <christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:21:23 -0400 (EDT), Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

>> Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than
>> Lynx. It supports tables and frames.
>
>using that sort of logic, they're better than each other, since there
>are things that each does better than the other.
>
>(links has a long way to go before I would recommend it as an example of
>how to write programs)

That's possibly true, but the fact is that Links is the better browser
if one wants to view "modern" web pages. In many cases, using Lynx
results in having to play detective and find out what belongs where.
That's why I quit using Lynx and switched to Links myself.

Christian Hennecke


**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:46:46 GMT+1
From:  Illya Vaes <illya at vaeshiep.demon.nl>
Subject:  Re:  Lynx|Links (was: gcc 3.0.4)

** Reply to note from "Christian Hennecke"   
<christian.hennecke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:17:46 +0200 (CEST) 
>>>It's from the guy who created the excellent Links text-mode browser.  
>>That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse).  
>Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than 
>Lynx. It supports tables and frames. 
 
:-\ Then it's called the same as a computer golf game... 

--
Illya Vaes       (illya at vaeshiep.demon.nl)
"Do...or do not, there is no 'try'" - Yoda

**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:50:59 +0300 (MSK)
From:  "Andrew Belov" <andrew_belov at newmail.ru>
Subject:  Re:  gcc 3.0.4

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:17:46 +0200 (CEST), Christian Hennecke wrote:

>>That would be "Lynx" (pronounced as 'links', ofcourse). 
>
>Nope. "Links" is another text-mode browser - and IMO much better than
>Lynx. It supports tables and frames.

None is better. Links is a browser. Lynx is a kind of web surfing automation tool.