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  • From: "Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re:+[SurvPC]Re:[BL]Communicationsprogram
  • Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:47:57 -0500 (EST)

>> Sindi Keesan wrote:
>>
>> Is there room in BL3 for links-ssl?
>
> There is certainly room for the executable (which is about
> the same size the the links I am using). However links-ssl
> is compressed. When executed, it auto-expands into a much
> larger RAM footprint. Since BL3 is targetted at old PCs, I
> am trying to keep the demand on resources as low as possible
> (particularly for the non-X stuff).
>
> If links-ssl works well for you, let us know. It would be
> an simple upgrade for people who need the extra features
> (and who have more than 8mb RAM).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
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I just booted with BL2 ramdisk version, used wget to get links-ssl (via
(via the web directory at a shell account to which I ftp-ed it),
downloaded into /tmp, and am running it. I used it to access my bbs and
webmail. Works great from /tmp (where it uncompresses). Thanks.




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