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| 1 | <chapter id="basicnet-textweb">
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| 2 | <?dbhtml filename="textweb.html" dir="basicnet"?>
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| 3 | <title>Text Web Browsers</title>
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| 5 | <para>People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question
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| 6 | "Why on earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile X
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| 7 | and use Konqueror/Mozilla/Whatever!". Those who have been
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| 8 | around systems for a while know that when (not if) you manage to mess up
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| 9 | your graphical browser install and you need to look up some information
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| 10 | on the web, a console based browser will save you. Also, there are
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| 11 | quite a few people who prefer to use one of these browsers as their
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| 12 | principle method of browsing; either to avoid the clutter and bandwidth
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| 13 | which accompanies images or because they may use a text-to-speech
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| 14 | synthesiser which can read the page to them (of use for instance to
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| 15 | partially sighted or blind users). We currently have installation
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| 16 | instructions for two console web browsers:</para>
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| 18 | &links;
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| 19 | &lynx;
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| 20 | &w3m;
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| 22 | </chapter>
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