Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Patrick Dunford
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:00

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Verily, verily snail@careless.netOOPS.au (snail) didst write on 30 Apr
1998 06:53:02 GMT in
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>Patrick Dunford <patrick_dunford@hotmail.com.nz> wrote:
>>Verily, verily snail@careless.netOOPS.au (snail) didst write on 29 Apr
>>>Yep. Tables were added in 2.5 and frames in 2.6 IIRC.
>>
>>But I was browsing my home page in Lynx the other day and it didn't
>>actually display the frames, instead it just gave me options of which
>>frame to display.
>>
>Yep. Given that lynx assumes a vt100 setup IIRC, it can't do much in
>terms of screen display, however it does at least give you access to
>the information. I think it's a compromise that works quite well. 

Does Unix have any standards for graphics? When I started using
computers the big powerful stuff was a PDP11 with that type, or
similar, terminals. No graphics as such.

Or to put it another way, how many people are likely to be using
text-only clients on anything, including Unix?

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From: patrick_dunford@hotmail.com.nz (Patrick Dunford)
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/30
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