getting off my windows dependency

[Farhan]

yes, i actaully tried lynx and it was sorta wierd, i'll try elinks and see 
what happens do i have to type elinks show-cursor or not
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mikster4 at msn.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: getting off my windows dependency


> Would be helpful if you described what you want help with.
>
> I will assume that you meant what e-mail clients and web browsers are 
> there. I will assume you have your hardware sorted, and can get a 
> connection to the internet.
> I am currently writing this e-mail in cone. I like this because it allows 
> you to have multiple accounts specified, supports pop3, imap, smtp, local 
> mail and limited support for news accounts. I have found that cone does 
> not like my university imap server, so for that I use pine. There are many 
> more, and if you are using a distribution like Debian or Gentoo with many 
> packages and a package management system, search that for e-mail, or 
> similar.
>
> Web browsers, elinks is a good general purpose text based one, giving 
> cookies, java script, bookmarks, support for frames, and more. Most 
> pre-built packages of elinks do not seem to have java script, you may have 
> to build it from source (I found the patch included with elinks  0.11 did 
> not work on spidermonkey, so I had to compile spidermonkey with elinks 
> 0.10 first). Links2 comes with java script built in for most pre-built 
> packages, but links2 is more limited in features, elinks is a branch-off 
> from links2 and aims to give more features. Lynx is a very basic text 
> browser, but for simple things, I find best. There may be some for gnome, 
> but I don't know of these and their accessibility. Mike Farhan writes:
>
>> Hey i want to get off my windows dependency for reading email and using 
>> the net but i'm not sure how to do this. i need some help to get away 
>> from...microcrap. help?
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