Re: www on Apple II logged onto Unix BBS?

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:
>James OReilly <joreilly@news.dorsai.org> wrote:

>>I can run Unix commands remotely on my host 
>>from my Apple II.  Should it matter what the home computer is if the host 
>>can handle www?  

>   Pretty much no, as long as the home computer can do vt100. One BIG
>caveat if you're using ProTERM 3.x and similar programs. Lynx uses both
>'bold' and 'inversed' text in its displays, and there's a big difference
>between the two. Normally, ProTERM displays both bold and inverse as
>the same, inverse. The solution is to tweak the config options so that
>only inverse video is inversed; you don't really lose much if the bold
>text is made normal.

Or you can run lynx with the -show_cursor option, which will position
the cursor on the text of a link rather than only at the bottom of the
screen, thus giving you a visual cue of what is a link and what isn't.

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