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[773c358]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[6732c094]2<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[773c358]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
[f45b1953]8<chapter id="basicnet-textweb">
[e169e580]9 <?dbhtml filename="textweb.html"?>
[50b8d8b]10
[e169e580]11 <title>Text Web Browsers</title>
[50b8d8b]12
[7c56ece]13 <para>
14 People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question "Why on
15 earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile
16 <application>X</application> and use <application>
[2e72850]17 Firefox</application>/<application>Falkon</application>/Whatever!".
[7c56ece]18 Those who have been around systems for a while know that when (not if)
19 you manage to mess up your graphical browser install and you need to
20 look up some information on the web, a console based browser will save
21 you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of these
22 browsers as their primary method of browsing; either to avoid the clutter
23 and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a
24 text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for
25 instance to partially sighted or blind users). In this chapter you will
[2e72850]26 find installation instructions for two console web browsers:
[7c56ece]27 </para>
[50b8d8b]28
[e05cd03f]29 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="links.xml"/>
30 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="lynx.xml"/>
[1eac9eb]31<!-- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="w3m.xml"/>-->
[f45b1953]32
33</chapter>
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