On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 iowadoc@micron.net wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> This list was extremely helpful in heading me in the right direction on 
> my choice of window managers. I am hoping to get a little advise on 
> another matter. 
> I (finally) have dial-in PPP up and running. Now I have to select some 
> clients to use the 'net. Like most things UN*X, most of these don't just 
> work "out of the box", so I know I will have to do some tweaking. I am 
> wondering what others have found of use for dial in accounts, via modem. 
> I am not on a network. I am tentatively thinking of using Lynx for web, 
> maybe Pine for email and maybe trn for news. But so far I haven't gotten  
> Lynx to run correctly, (only I could do that!!). I am not looking for 
> anything elaborate. 
> Once again I am not trying to ask "what's best", but rather, "what's 
> been your experience?" 
> TIA. The advise on window managers was really good, I wound up using 
> icewm. Hey, compared to TWM.....

Suggestion: leave blank spaces between paragraphs. :-)

I really like pine, and have used it for years. lynx is good when I don't
have X (which is often on mac68k).

Are you using the package system? They should run out of the box.

Take care,

Bill