Re: LYNX-DEV Simple Lynx Access

[Al Gilman]

  From: Wilhelm Reindl <address@hidden>
  
  I'm browsing the web with a 286 dialup connection, not glamorous, yet 
  effective.  The sysop here is not interested in installing Lynx on this 
  server (IRIX 5.3) just for me, and I'm totally inept on the UNIX 
  platform, not because I'm a complete idiot, I just don't know the system 
  too well.
  
  I looked into the public sites and the don't seem to support important 
  functions such as bookmarks.  I don't know if they download either.
  
  Should I go to the DOS version and make a TCP/IP dialup connection 
  instead?  I just wanted to avoid having to immediately dump 
  the files I grab down the phone lines, but as you can tell by my archaic 
  computer,  I can deal with a bit  of clumsiness if  necessary.

The simple version with a 286 is that you dial into a shell
account (or lynx-as-shell account) where you can run Lynx.

Don't expect a site to keep bookmarks for you if you are
anonymous to them.  But downloading is something to shop for.

IMHO 

        begging a compatible IRIX binary or 
        telnetting to an account elsewhere 

are both simpler than committing yourself to maintaining a
Lynx/ppp installation on your 286.

I didn't understand how you are browsing the web now.

Al Gilman
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