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Article #320Re: A solution that would certainly help TFN
From: Mark Freedman
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:00
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: : Nabil M. El-Khodari (falcon@torfree.net) wrote:
: : : I-Comm once again!!! IMHO, I-Comm is the way out for most of TFN's
: : : current probelms that can be summarized as follows:
(clipped from the cnet website - trimmed for brevity)
[51]The shell game
The best way to browse the Web from a shell account is with Lynx.
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I-Comm
For the shell user with a serious case of PPP envy, there are a
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few products that emulate standard graphical browsers like
Navigator and IE. One of the most popular is I-Comm, from Talent
Communications. I-Comm is part communications program and part Web
browser. It relies on the presence of a text browser like Lynx and
downloads images to your local machine for display in a graphical,
point-and-click environment. It's a neat idea, but we found it
cumbersome and more painful than it's worth. If you're desperate
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for graphics and can't get access to a [53]cheap PPP account, give
it a try. Otherwise, stick to Lynx.
References
1. http://www.cnet.com
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