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Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> The fact that you can't cut&paste from/to links 0.9.0
> is to me a fatal flaw.

You can.  Hold down the shift key.

> Once the decision to use X has been made, it makes no 
> sense to use _any_ of the image-displaying alternatives, 

I agree.  That's why I didn't compile vgalib capability
into the BL3 version of links2 (which made Sindi unhappy).

> And libncurses is _huge_, 

I agree.  That's why it's not in BL3 (and why I've avoided
apps that use it).

> (One of the things I admire about links 0.9.0 is that it doesn't
> use libncurses _or_ X. Frankly, I was shocked when I ran ldd
> on it and discovered that its only dependency was libc.)

links is great.  It does a surprising amount with a
relatively small footprint.  It was the key app in BL1.

Cheers,
Steven