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Salve,

> Giuseppe and James, can you test it also in BL2?

I tried the Elinks from http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl on bl2 but it gives
the same output as in bl3 (i.e. blank screen).

On bl3 (486 with 12 Mb Ram) I have Steven's Links1 and Links and Lynx, all
with ssl support: ok.

On bl2 (Pentium S with 32 Mb Ram) I have Lynx with ssl support.
On this computer I would try a graphical (light) browser with ssl support,
if Ram is enough.

Steven's Links2 for bl3 would work in bl2?

For Links2.1 pre 28 ssl (last version with javascript) would I need some
additional libraries and/or packages?

Alternatively I could try an old version of Opera.
In this case would I need operalib.tgz from http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl ?
Or the package for Opera in bl3 would work as well in bl2?

Thank you for any help.

Regards,
Giuseppe


----- Original Message -----
From: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] bl3: ftpd and links


> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Giuseppe wrote:
> >
> >> Elinks connects with the sites I enter but the screen is empty. I see
it
> >> connects: it shows the speed and progress of connection. It seems to be
> >> faster than Lynx and Links2 but it shows nothing. No error message and
no
> >> complains.
> >
> > Same results here. Doesn't matter whether the site is remote (e.g.,
> > google) or local (e.g., hotlist.html). Like it's missing fonts, or fonts
> > are transparent or something. Same in console as in terminal. Light on
> > dark or dark on light terminal makes no difference--still blank pages.
> > Anyway, nice try. I can see that even tabs work.
>
> Odd.  I only tested it while chrooted from BL2 to BL3.  I wonder what is
> missing.  I wish someone better at compiling would tackle elinks (with
> javascript) and get something that works for everyone.
>
> Giuseppe and James, can you test it also in BL2?
>
> Works fine for me in BL2 or chrooted to BL3 in a console in color or
> in an rxvt (does not display colors there, probably because I compiled it
> small - it can be compiled to show 256 colors).
>
> www.grex.org displays for me and downloads and displays www.umich.edu in 6
> seconds.  Steven's BL3 links2 (nongraphical) with or without ssl downloads
> it in 4 seconds.  (On my fast computer).
>
> In BL3 rxvt the rectangle displayed when I type 'g' for 'goto' is made up
> of g and backwards s rather than a thin single line (in BL2).  Missing
> font?  In a console it is a thin double line.
>
> elinks lets you load it with URL specified.
> elinks www.umich.edu
> Or if you don't specify, it starts you with a Goto screen.
> You cannot just type in part of the URL as you can with lynx.
>
> There is a wrap text W.
>
> I don't see a way to number links.  So it probably should be compiled with
> gpm support next time.  Nor are links underlined.  At some sites (mine for
> instance) links are blue and other text white.
>
> Using zgv on a 200K image under elinks (at a website) appears to crash it
> (I get a black screen after the image downloads).  Still buggy.
> Links1 and 2 don't do this (with 512MB RAM).
>
> In Setup Terminal Options 'Transparency' is selected by default - would it
> help to turn it off if you get invisible pages?  Or turn off Color?
>
> I turned on Block Cursor, and Underline (no obvious effect)
>
> > James
>
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