Subject: Re: WWW on Pine?

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 03:04:32 GMT

Comes here Mr. Joe Ducharme with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in
this article on Wed, 15 Feb 1995 13:41:21 -0600:

 + Send email to: [email-masked]
 + no subject
 + for pages without html tags type:
 + send http://address.of.url/more/information/here

 + for the tags still embedded, type:
 + source http://address.of.url/more/information/here

 + Of course, you'd type out the address you're interested in. NOTE: I 
 + haven't tried this myself, I'm just passing on what I read. Laters...

This won't work if it just downloads the *.html file, as the gif images,
imagemaps and other graphics will not get downloaded which almost defeats
the purpose of W3.

For ascii based W3 access 'lynx' is a better alternative, otherwise you can
just telnet to the http srever site (port 80) and GET the html file to
the localdrive and then use a browser to view that if access to 'lynx' is not
avail.

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From: "Stephen R. Wylie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 07:30:34 -30000

On 18 Feb 1995, Wet-Sprocket wrote:

> Date: 18 Feb 1995 03:04:32 GMT
> From: Wet-Sprocket <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: WWW on Pine?
> 

almost?? i'd pretty much say it DOES defeat the purpose... pictures, 
sounds, and HOT-LINKS make www what it is....

i'd be tempted to use pine exclusively for email [like i do] and use 
netscape to surf the web...

> the localdrive and then use a browser to view that if access to 'lynx' is not

give up on lynx too... no pix... it WILL get you by... but it's a ford 
pinto compared to netscape.

if you don't have lynx or netscape, you should get a copy [netscape...] 
or cry to your sysadmin...

netscape has a version for MS windoze for your pc also....

srw
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