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Re: replace lynx with (e)links in base



On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:02:38PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Take elinks as an example; it's faster, more compact and offers
 elinks = links/links-ssl in Debisn
> Or w3m, which has the advantage of not trying to have a !@#$!@# GUI,
> and also does proper frame and table rendering.

Is it?  I thought all of these are in text mode console.  links and w3m
can do tables. w3m's real advantage is Japanese (16 bit encoding)
support.

> As you notice, it could become a contentious issue easily :)

Contentious, true.  But it is worth discussing.

For size and functionality, links (or links-ssl) seems to me
the tightest.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package: links     Installed-Size:  968  Table=yes Japanese=no
Package: links-ssl Installed-Size:  976  Table=yes Japanese=no
Package: w3m       Installed-Size: 1328  Table=yes Japanese=yes
Package: w3m-ssl   Installed-Size:  776  Table=yes Japanese=yes (needs w3m)
Package: lynx      Installed-Size: 3500  Table=no  Japanese=no
Package: lynx-ssl  Installed-Size: 3512  Table=no  Japanese=no

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       828968 Oct  8 06:27 links (ssl)
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1099960 Jan 25  2002 lynx
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          770 Nov  4 10:12 w3m
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       339368 Nov  4 10:12 w3m-en
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       357832 Nov  4 10:12 w3m-ja
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          901 Nov  4 10:12 w3mman
(Also /usr/share/w3m/* has few files)

lynx has -force_html option to read a php source :-)  Others, do not :-(
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