Re: Lynx/GS/Proterm3.1

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Elizabeth Lucero (blinky@northcoast.com) wrote:
: I was at a local University Library today, and i decided to log onto the 
: internet from one of their stations.  I used a PC running Netscape 2.02(i 
: believe, 2.something).  I telnetted over to my shell account using the 
: built-in Netscape telnet program (i simply typed 
: "telnet://northcoast.com" in the URL box).  I went into LYnx and was 
: pleasantly surprised.  I don't use Lynx too often because i don't like it 
: and it seems clunky, so i stick with Cern's LineMode WWW Browser.  
: 	Lynx was very different.  All hyperlinks were in white text while 
: the other text was blue, the entire word was highlighted when selected, 
: so it was clear what link i was about to follow, and when a page prompted 
: me to fill in a box, such as on a search engine,  there was a broken line 
: (link) and the button that allowed me to submit my text was a link, as 
: well.  I doubt that they updated the version overnight, but I will 
: certainly check.  If not, why does it not look this way from my GS?  I 
: use Proterm 3.1, is there a program available that will allow me to view 
: Lynx this way?  usually i lynx, text is "misplaced" and redrawn in 
: awkward ways on the screen, it becomes unclear which "link" is selected 
: after several pages have been scrolled through, as the entire screen 
: doesn't seem to be re-drawing itself completely, and i can't use the 
: search engine submit boxes, nor other forms. 

(sorry about the long quote...)
I use Lynx all of the time from my ][gs, and this is where ANSITerm really
shines.  While a text-based comm program is good and fast, and great for
doing news and email and such-like, for Lynx, you really need a graphic
comm program that can give you multi-color text.  When I use Lynx, all of
the text is white on black; links and emphasized text is blue; the
currently selected link is inverse; and underlined text is underlined.

As for text not redrawing properly on the screen...What kind of modem are
you using?  I had *lots* of trouble exactly as you describe when I was
running at 2400 baud.  Now that I am at 14.4kbaud, I have hardware
compression and error-correction, and the Lynx displays are beautiful.

Just my experience...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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