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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

In order to run lynx (the one I compiled, anyway) in BL2 with ratpoison 
you need xterm, not rxvt.

I found two ways to get the xterm:
Open an rxvt (C-t,c) and type xterm in it (which opens the next window
as an xterm).
Change the script x-terminal-emulator (in /usr/sbin) to
exec xterm
exec rxvt
exec rxvt

(Steven, is exec needed?  I put it in because your icewm menu had it.  And 
now I know why you have three xterms on one line in the menu.)

This also lets you create additional windows/screens without typing rxvt,
but they take up some RAM since they load before you start using
ratpoison.  For a really low-RAM system you probably don't want to be
using two windows at once anyway.

xterm - 1804K
rxvt - 1036K
ratpoison - 740K
bash - 880 K

BL3 
swm - 684K - it is definitely minimal!
sh - 252K

I was able to run opera, links2, xpdf, kermit, zgv, flwriter in/from rxvt,
just not lynx.  Lynx told me:  error opening terminal:xterm.  Perhaps 
there is some way to compile it to use rxvt instead?