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

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

In <040320031609261467%khowe@omninet.net.au> Kim Howe  wrote:
> 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
>