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allegedly Ian Smith wrote <19990714.0927.7631snz@isis.demon.co.uk> :
>On 13 Jul, in article <slrn7omqvb.k77.robm@bob.bob.bofh.org>
>     robm@bob.bofh.org "Robert Mortimer" wrote:
[snip]
>There are some gains to a packet driver if the compile is aimed at it. 
>Dropping the PPP/dialer and loading the driver high delivers a 
>significant gain in free memory and I'd have thought that as digital 
>channels proliferate, access via the packet interface would come into 
>it's own. It's easy to do if CIPA is typical of the software involved.

I'd say that CIPA was one of the more complex packet drivers to
install, although getting some of the ppp and slip packet drivers to
dial out properly can be intersting.

>> Have you looked at Caldera's offering of late? Last time I played with
>> it it was getting quite usable although somewhat of a memory hog.
>I've tried 2.1, but it (like the other DOS browsers) falls between two 
>stalls for me. It doesn't (do any ?) do SSL, so far as I can see, and 

It doesn't although an ISP could provide a proxy that added SSL
capability to non-ssl browsers if they chose to. That way the security
risk is at least reduced to just travelling across the ISP.

>it's no better at basic page/file collection than what I have in YAN, 
>but then that's what I'm used to.

True, but then page collection isn't really browsing which is what
many people claim is what most people want to do.

>By the way, if you like GUIs, the Newdeal v3 suite has a browser and 
>PPP/dialer which work OK, even in the trial version.
>
>Incidentally, has Lynx got persistent cookies yet ?

If you want it to, it's new to the latest version, which adds the two
options:
    -cookies         toggles handling of Set-Cookie headers
    -cookie_file=FILENAME
                     specifies a file to use to store cookies

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