Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

[Kim Howe <khowe@omninet.net.au>]

In article <yourIP-0203032035050001@12-248-100-51.client.attbi.com>,
SlickRCBD <yourIP@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> I'm looking for something that can display some basic HTML documents on an
> Apple IIGS. Is there a version of Lynx or some other web browser besides
> Spectrim Internet Suite? I don't want to have to shell out $70 just to be
> able to display some HTML document on my IIGS's screen (usually
> instructions of some kind) while I work on my other computer. 
> 

You could try Arachnid
ftp://ftp.syndicomm.com/pub/a2central/pub/gsos/telecom/arachnidr3.shk
It's free, but it's not finished by any means. Hope to get back to it
working on it sometime.

> I could also use some kind of PDF viewer or something that can read modern
> Word documents (.DOC) as well, but I fear that would be asking too much.
> 
> Download locations would help.

M$ likes to regularly change their file formats on Word making older
versions obsolete. Makes it very difficult to code a viewer or
translator. There's a few technical problems with pdf too. There are
websites that can turn pdf into html, so you could go that way, then
read via Arachnid or SIS. Any graphics are going to be a problem at
this time though.

Kim Howe