Terminology

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Marshall Price

At the following URL I found the following text.

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http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kennethkwok/lynx/

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Using Lynx in Windows

Lynx is a console program. That means it is a text-mode program that
runs in a DOS box. However, it accesses the Windows Socket and other
kernel functions directly and not through a "virtual PC" like DOS
programs. It is a native 32-bit Windows program that must run under Windows.

I have successfully run Lynx on a variety of Windows systems. So far I
had not encountered any problems with Win9x or WinME systems. Lynx
cannot run on some NT systems that I tried it on; I am not technical
enough to figure out why. There has been no problems with 2000/XP
systems except that I could never get the DOS window to fully maximise
even in 640 x 480 and sometimes the Lynx screen does not refresh properly.

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I wonder if anybody can comment on whether the terminology is accurate,
especially "console program," "DOS box," "virtual PC," and "DOS programs."

(I've got lynx running full-screen, without any borders, which I
accomplished by creating a batch file in my lynx directory, and a link
to it on my Start > Programs list, and setting the properties on the
latter, choosing "Full Screen" on the Options tab and a screen buffer
size of width 80 and height 25 on the Layout tab. I don't know whether
I did it right, but it seems to work. I have some questions, but need
to understand the vocabulary first.)
 
Marshall said:
At the following URL I found the following text.

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http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kennethkwok/lynx/

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Using Lynx in Windows

Lynx is a console program. That means it is a text-mode program that
runs in a DOS box. However, it accesses the Windows Socket and other
kernel functions directly and not through a "virtual PC" like DOS
programs. It is a native 32-bit Windows program that must run under Windows.

I have successfully run Lynx on a variety of Windows systems. So far I
had not encountered any problems with Win9x or WinME systems. Lynx
cannot run on some NT systems that I tried it on; I am not technical
enough to figure out why. There has been no problems with 2000/XP
systems except that I could never get the DOS window to fully maximise
even in 640 x 480 and sometimes the Lynx screen does not refresh properly.
Click to expand...

I would say it runs in a "32-bit command shell window" rather than
in a "DOS Box". The rest seems right.

Many people confuse a 32-bit Windows text-mode (i.e. "console")
application with a "DOS" application. It sounds like the above is
clear that Lynx is the former.

- Rich
 
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