text browser availability for "primitive" PCs?

[Daniel Albano]

On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 sshone at dewey.pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us wrote:

>    Do you know of a place on the Internet where we might be able to 
> download Lynx or another text based browser for my patron.  He has 
> been calling all week and I haven't been able to give him an intelligent
> answer.  Everything I read about Lynx says that it was written to use 
> on a Vax system.  Does that mean that it won't work on a home PC?  Or 
> is there another text based browser??  The patron has a 286 with a 
> 14.4 modem and windows 3.1.  He has a black and white monitor.

	There is an MSDOS based Lynx.  Check any major MSDOS
	archive, such as one of the Simtel mirrors.

	Daniel

	

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