Re: question and answer, style guide?
Anthony Baxter (anthony@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)
Wed, 04 Nov 92 01:48:34 +1100
Message-Id: <9211031448.AA03638@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
To: dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Michel Dagenais)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: question and answer, style guide?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 92 09:21:30 EST."
<9211031421.AA05725@wotan.vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 01:48:34 +1100
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
In message <9211031421.AA05725@wotan.vlsi.polymtl.ca> you write:
> I have been talking to a number of people in the area recently
> who want to setup gopher or www information servers for their
> users to access both local and external information. In most
> cases their first intention is to go for Gopher, because it is
> "simpler". When digging more the issue it appears that they just
> tried both ASCII clients (gopher and www line-mode) and the
> gopher ASCII client is much nicer being based on curses.
>
> Thus, i think that the problem is not with SGML/HTML but simply
> with LineMode.
I remember seeing a (development) version of a screenmode client that was
quite nice. I cant find a reference to where it was now, does anyone know
what happened to it? Is it still under development?
I agree, though - a nice curses-type client would be a real bonus.
Anthony
Anthony