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["Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

>> 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.