Jargons of Info Tech industry

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Fri Aug 26 20:33:54 EDT 2005


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.

  <mike
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