Jargons of Info Tech industry

John Bokma john at castleamber.com
Fri Aug 26 21:47:31 EDT 2005


Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> writes:
> 
>> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:
>>>> > Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today
>>>> > already comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser)
>>>> 
>>>> No, they don't. Minimalist Unix distributions don't include a browser
>>>> by default. I know the BSD's don't, and suspect that gentoo Linux
>>>> doesn't. 
>>> 
>>> Lynx?
>>
>> Emacs?
> 
> Neither one is installed by default on the systems in question. Both
> are available via the system packaging tools.
> 
> fetch is installed on FreeBSD, but all it does is download the
> contents of a URL - it doesn't render them.

My brain does :-D

-- 
John                   Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/
               Perl programmer available:     http://castleamber.com/
            Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html
                        



More information about the Python-list mailing list