getting off my windows dependency

[Janina Sajka]

What does "weird" mean?

The -show_cursor argument is for lynx with a y, not elinks. Pay
attention.

Farhan writes:
> 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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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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