[plug] Linux.Conf.Au Update.

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Harry McNally wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:42:54 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that to find the information ..
> > .. lynx shows .. 
> > .. I do not know whether lynx has a "Find in this 
> > page" facility.
> 
> Ok, well with all credit to James and his helpers I've just run up a
> Computer Angels machine and viewed the page beautifully in two of the
> lightest graphical browsers we install; dillo and skipstone. Skipstone has
> a find facility in the drop downs and dillo has one when you right mouse
> click in the window (or use control-F).
> 
> Consider installing these tools if, like the CA machines, you are tight on
> memory. 
> 
> All the best
> Harry  
> 
> 

It's not an issue of shortage of memory (320MB); it's that I run PINE in 
its own console or login session, or whatever the correct term is 
(<ALT><Fx>), and, from that, the URL viewer that opens, is lynx.

Thus, for the most part, I use lynx to read web pages for which the 
URL's are sent in email messages.

On a 15" monitor with 800x600 resolution, xterm characters are too small 
to easily read, and, running PINE in xterm would mean that, on those 
occasions when XWindows crashes, I would have duplicate messages 
downloaded in all my folders, via the filters, as PINE does not flush 
the INBOX on the mail server, until PINE is shutdown using q . PINE has 
many advantages; but, when problems occur, they certainly do occur, due 
to that aspect.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, 1988
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