Subject: Re: Which NetScape?
To: Matt Harrell <mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com>
From: <>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/04/1996 13:13:05
> On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, David Gilbert wrote:
> You're kidding. You mean to tell me (us) that there is NO graphical web
> browser that I will be able to run on NetBSD on my Amiga? There isn't
> one that can be compiled?
Hubert mailed us this was mailed out not too long ago:
> ftp.uni-regensburg.de:/pub/NetBSD-Amiga/contrib/X11/Mosaic-2.7b2-bin11.*
> and mirrors.
i haven't tried it myself, so i can't say much about it.
myself, i've been using w3-2.3.30 on xemacs-19.13. it's pretty slow,
chews up a lot of colours, and still has some bugs in the newer stuff.
my copy isn't inlining images, but i only very rarely want images
and i -have- seen w3 do them surprisingly well on xemacs (with a much
faster machine). i think all i need is netpbm.
i've been on pins and needles for tk-4.1 to stabilise so surfit! can
stabilise... with sockets included in tcl7.5, you no longer need a pile
of extensions to use it. i'd use it now, but there's still some bugs
in critical places. (ie last time i tried it - v 0.5 - i couldn't fetch
anything.)
> That will put a serious damper on my
> intentions to install NetBSD on my system.
it's a bummer, isn't it? sometimes it's a real pain putting up with
the stuff you can't get for the amiga. Escom's got a hard row to hoe
selling Amigas in a Netrape world... i just had to buy an IBM to do
something to try to make a little money, and i'm dissed that there's
a better browser bundled in Windows '95 than i can download or buy
for NetBSD/Amiga... despite what can be had for SunOS, Linux, or CrapinTrash.
f*ck f*ck f*ck
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Hume Smith <hclsmith@isisnet.com> Alumnus Against Advantage Acadia