Subject: Re: Benefits of AMD64 arch when running NetBSD/i386.
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: port-amd64
Date: 07/29/2005 20:04:23
> However, I will say: I do not recommend running ARJ
> (...pkgsrc/archivers/arj) on any system where {sizeof (void*) >
> sizeof (int)}.  (^&  I filed patches with the author, but he
> seems not to think that there is anything wrong with casting
> pointers to {int} before comparing them to see which is bigger.


no need - unarj is enough :)


>
> Yeah.  (^&  But now I like links better.  It's like lynx (keyboard
> navigation), but better (graphics, mouse support, ...).  Far be
> it from me to push you towards it if you like firefox, but if you
> want to try: ...pkgsrc/www/links-gui (...pkgsrc/www/links is without
> the graphical/GUI support, but still supports mouse-clicks from
> within xterm).


links-gui is excellent unfortunately not for explorer-designed pages i 
HAVE to look sometimes.

and links is MUCH faster

> I have this theory that there is something about the web and LISP
> that causes this kind of bad proramming to be common.  (^&  (I say
> this with all affection for the LISP dialects, but little affection

if someone tried to make web browser compatible with M$-designed webpages 
don't require him to still have good coding habits :)