Reading the handbook from console

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:56:24 -0800, dteske at freebsd.org wrote:
> > Ok, the reason I ask is actually because I have this insane (?) idea of
> shoving
> > one of the aforementioned solutions onto the installation media so that
> (gasp)
> > we can have that functionality back like we had in the days of
> sysinstall.
>
> So my stupid brain remembered something that actually has
> happened? A text mode browser in the default installation?
> Called /usr/bin/lynx maybe? It must be a long time ago...
>
>
>
> > So naturally, my first question is "which one?"
>
> The UNIX philosophy suggests to use one that is sufficient
> for the purpose. A look at dependencies would be useful.
> From that point of view, lynx seems to be okay, as it
> will do all the things which are required: Render the
> HTML in a readable manner, make the hyperreferences
> accessible, evenprovide NLS if the installation has
> a requirement for that (newbie non-US users probably
> will find that feature useful), no dependencies regarding
> graphics hardware, so it will even work on a serial
> terminal (when in use at a museum) or via SSH if
> urgently needed.
>
> However, it seems that lynx does not support UTF-8, but
> again, that doesn't matter, as there is no such content
> in the documents, and it doesn't work in text mode anyway.
>
> And if you need a transparent background, clean your
> terminal. :-)
>
> It would also be possible to use w3m with ja- users in
> mind, disabling the "inline image" functions to get rid
> of x11, fb, and gtk2 dependencies. If desired, w3m can
> use the lynx keyboard map.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers_for_Unix_and_Unix-like_operating_systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_web_browser




http://www.freshports.org/japanese/w3m/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m
w3m ( MIT )





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser
Line Mode Browser ( W3C Software Notice and License )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Software_Notice_and_License
W3C Software Notice and License

http://www.freshports.org/www/elinks/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks
ELinks ( GPLv2 )


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alynx
Lynx (web browser) ( GPLv2 )


http://www.freshports.org/www/links/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29
Links (web browser) ( GPLv2+ )



http://www.freshports.org/japanese/lynx/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29
Lynx (web browser) ( GPLv2 )



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3
Emacs/W3 ( GPLv2+ )
http://www.gnu.org/software/w3/
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/w3/


Alternative :

http://www.freshports.org/www/emacs-w3m/
http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/


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Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk