[arachne] Re: D*** BasicLinux

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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Greg Mayman wrote:


When I had logged in to the ISP, I typed Links2 at the command
prompt and it crashed straight back to the prompt. Tried again
and it worked.... but it looks just like ordinary Links. Isn't it
supposed to be a graphical browser?


http://twovoyagers.com/devel/screenshots.html

  On this machine, I have an alias set up in sh so:
alias links='/usr/local/bin/links -g -mode 800x600 '
So, if I'm in a sh xterm, 'links' opens the X-window shown in the screenshots. In a bash xterm, it's text. Maybe not so obviously, links can only be graphical if run in X. There's no SVGA version as there is with Arachne. 


"find gzip" and "find gunzip" each gave a not found message.
The find command is rather more complicated than that. $ man find
Probably you'd do better with $ which gunzip 
/bin/gunzip


But if apparently legitimate add-ons won't install, or if
installed they won't run, if compressed files can't be
decompressed because I don't have the utility that I am told I
already have, and I can only download a copy of it in compressed
form to be uncompressed by the utility that I "already have" but
I don't have, that if I did have it I wouldn't be needing to
download it anyway.....
Here's gunzip (dated Feb 2000) from RedHat 6.2. It's *may* be too new for BL depending on exactly how loosely BL is "based" on slack4. If BL has these, the RH gunzip should work. 

$ ldd /bin/gunzip
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

http://wizard.dyndns.org/gunzip
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