Re: Browsers_etc
On 2000-07-23 gebrandariz at yahoo.com said:
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ge>Cc: <gebrandariz at yahoo.com>
ge>Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 10:07 AM
ge>> I do tend to use yahoo , as a search engine, at the moment ; I'm
ge>> unfamiliar with northernlight and alltheweb.
ge>Give them a try, you won't regret it. Northern Light, in particular,
ge>is very good for "natural language" searches, as in "fast ftp sites
ge>for programming freeware" (I actually tried it; you should see the
ge>first contents page, and the "Custom Search Folders" it made up for
ge>selective browsing).
ge>I'm not deprecating other search engines. Most are at least quite
ge>adequate. I actually downloaded the new GO Express Search
ge>(infoseek), and use it frequently. But the two I quoted are my
ge>favorites by far, for results, speed and presentation.
I don't see much of the page layout with this browser , most of the
time I turnoff the graphics content completely and selectively d/l to
a particular directory ; capturing the *.htm pages and associated
images that I'm interested in for offline viewing with the html 4.0
capabilities of arachne 1.40b. To include the images effectively with
the saved *.htm I sometimes need to edit the <img src ....>
portion of the file.
ge>> this browser is quite good at downloading files ,
ge>Actually, I use the browser (mostly MSIE and Netscape, but also
ge>StarOffice -I'm getting to like it) to search and ...well, browse.
ge>But once I have the ftp address down pat, I use Christian Ghisler's
ge>Windows Commander (www.ghisler.com). In case you don't know it,
ge>it's a remote descendant of a Norton Commander clone, with a lot of
ge>functions and excellent performance. I just open a window to a
ge>directory in my HD, and another to the ftp site's, and then it's up
ge>and down their directories, not just copying but also viewing and
ge>even searching for text inside their files.
ge>Good hunting.
ge>Gerardo E. Brandariz
My Windows 3.xx isn't quite up to this , though the 16-bit netscape 4.08
may eventually function , perhaps , erratically ; with some coaxing.
This browser , Netscape, runs from 16-bit DOS , there was a website for
this , however I can't get any response from them at netscape.net , I
think.
Seems that once you connect with the most useful search engine you can
locate most anything in the world , as if this was just an extension
of your own file directories ; furthermore the access times can appear
to be the same as if you were looking at your own local directories.
This may sound common place to you , however I recall trying to use
an rs-232 link for inter-computer communication , quite a few years ago
now , and was annoyed at how slow the link was ; the other computer was
on the same campus.
I'm not keen on museum pieces either , just that some things , like
32-bit compilers and standards , like ANSI , take so long to develop
into useful tools.
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