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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:45:12 +1200
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> For some time, I have been trying to find a suitable 
> graphical browser for BL3.  I spent a lot of time 
> trying to get Netscape 3.04 to work, but it just 
> wouldn't run on Xvesa.  I then investigated replacing 
> Xvesa with an ancient X server (not much larger than 
> Xvesa), but it was missing a capability that Netscape 
> needed.  So I tried compiling dillo, but it failed 
> (probably because of something missing in the GTK I 
> installed from Slackware 4.0).
> 
> However (finally!) I have found a graphical browser
> that works, and I have just uploaded it to the BL3 
> add-ons.
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/add-ons/links2.tgz
> 
> The package is less than 2mb in size and it runs happily 
> on the default BL3 (no other packages are needed).  Just 
> pkg links2.tgz and it will automatically appear in your 
> swm menu (in the Internet submenu).  
> 
> I would be grateful if some of you would try it and tell
> me whether it is OK.

    It installs just fine and is able to run around my hard disks with no 
problems.
I seldom go onto the net with BL3, but I will give it a go in the next day or 
two.

Regards,
        Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
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