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Re: [CM] Soviet PCs

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: [CM] Soviet PCs
Date	2015-10-19 11:38 -0400
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Stan Barr wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:56:31 -0400, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it's harder and harder each year, websites not liking Lynx outright,
>> or being too fancy for lynx to work well.
>
> On my text-only machine I mostly use Links2 which at least understands
> frames.  I can't get it to handle jpegs as ascii correctly, it upsets
> the screen layout :-(
>
Frames have never bothered me, lynx displays a page where you can choose 
between which frame.  Maybe not as handy as a "proper" page, but it works.

But I've hit pages where the server software has rejected me. It gives an 
error, I think it was "406", and displays the main page, but won't go 
beyond that.  If it was a subpage, there's a 404 error, if I recall 
properly.  It's checking the user agent header, and specifically rejecting 
lynx for some reason.

Then there are the webpages that tell me to go away until I get a 
different browser.  Those seemed more common some years back, as if now 
nobody is thinking about lynx.  But the pages often worked with lynx, with 
some limitations, the rejection page was a construct of the webpage 
designer.

There's always been some level of trouble with using lynx, but nothing too 
serious.

I've never worked out how to leave comments on a page with lynx, it ends 
up with weird formatting.  Actually, the problem there is not having place 
to test and figure out the problem, rather than an outright problem. 
Using lynx, my comments appeared fine, it was only with another browser 
that I saw the problem.

I think one of the things that's happened is that after I got a tablet 
about 3 years ago, I used that quite a bit, and for the first time was 
routinely using a graphic browser.  That's gotten me more used to seeing 
graphic pages, so I'm less likely to accomodate lynx if I come across some 
trouble, so i just switch to the graphic browser.  Previously, I'd live 
with any problems.

For five years, 1996 to 2001, I didnt' have a good enough computer to run 
a graphic browser, so the choice wasn't there.

  Michael

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[CM] Soviet PCs RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-10-17 05:50 +0000
  Re: [CM] Soviet PCs philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-10-17 10:22 -0500
  Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2015-10-17 23:00 -0300
    Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-10-17 21:14 -0700
      Re: [CM] Soviet PCs hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 19:17 -0800
    Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-18 11:04 +0000
      Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-10-18 11:58 -0700
        Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-19 00:15 +0200
          Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2016-02-14 16:37 -0500
            Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 16:54 -0500
              Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-02-14 17:58 -0600
              Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-15 21:27 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-15 17:41 -0500
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-02-15 23:08 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-16 00:20 +0100
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-16 04:46 -0800
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-16 15:15 +0100
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-17 11:42 -0800
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-17 23:24 +0100
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-18 10:42 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-02-16 08:14 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-02-16 11:42 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2016-02-16 17:01 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-02-17 01:32 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-02-15 18:23 -0600
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-16 00:50 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-02-16 15:09 -0600
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-17 03:42 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-02-17 14:11 +0000
              Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) cmadams@cmadams.net (Chris Adams) - 2016-02-15 17:15 -0600
            Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-14 19:40 -0800
              Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-14 19:45 -0800
              Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-15 01:12 -0600
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-15 06:09 -0800
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-15 13:37 -0600
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 16:16 -0500
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-16 18:52 -0700
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-16 22:18 -0500
              Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-15 09:43 +0000
              Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2016-02-15 15:27 -0500
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-16 09:14 +0000
              Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-18 20:30 -0800
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-19 19:48 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. (Was: Soviet PCs) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-19 12:56 -0700
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-02-19 20:15 -0600
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-02-19 20:24 -0600
                Re: Early Unixes requirements. Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-02-19 20:34 -0800
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-20 19:56 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-02-20 22:10 +0000
                Re: Early Unixes requirements.  (Was: Soviet PCs) "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-20 16:12 -0600
        Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-18 21:56 -0400
          Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-19 07:07 +0000
            Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-19 11:38 -0400
  Re: [CM] Soviet PCs Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2015-10-18 11:34 -0500
  Re: [CM] Soviet PCs mentificium@gmail.com - 2015-10-18 11:32 -0700

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