On Jun 22, Bruce Perens wrote > Lynx can browse files directly, and can execute CGI scripts directly. True. However, it can't handle gzipped pages, and hacking it to do so seems a) special case (because chimera, w3, netscape and all the others still don't) and b) outside of its domain of relevance. As well, it (rightly) looks for references of the form `foo/bar.html', when it would have to look for `foo/bar.html.gz' and do the unzipping. In contrast, info browsers have been handling compressed files for what feels like eternity to this young'un ;-). You can configure a web server (almost any web server, if I remember correctly) to dynamically unzip the pages as they come down the line, however, and this seems more in line with what one expects a web server to do. If HTML is to be used in any form, a minimal web server would also be important, if only for this aspect. As far as *which* window manager, this is something else entirely. WN is nice, but requires slightly nonstandard update files, and Apache is occasionally too big but certainly capable (although I have never really understood this, having run it on every Linux machine since my 386SX). Boa might be a possibility, if it could be told how to transfer gzipped files; I have positive experiences with it, but I don't know whether this is something it can do by default. -- Graham Hughes <ghughes@cs.ucsb.edu> MIME & PGP mail OK. (define pgp-fingerprint "E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B") (require 'stddisclaim)
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