From: csantill AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us Message-ID: <342DAB2F.B13A1DE5@lausd.k12.ca.us> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:56:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Palotas , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: A DJ Web Browser References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 16 DOT 19970928005911 DOT 23df35f4 AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk from: csantill AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us Peter Palotas wrote: > But I don't know anything about PPP, SLIP, TCP/IP and stuff, (except that > they are protocols used on the internet, and in intranets, and stuff), so > I'd need to pick up a load of information on this. Also would it need to > contain (I suppose it should) a TCP/IP socket driver for DOS, or is there I know Brennan has some links to some communcation stuff but I don't know if any of that could be used here. I'm actually considering writing this this stuff my self because I want to know exactly how my code works, not hit compile & pray that it does. > Using a portable graphics library for this would also probably be a good [SNIP] > bug free, but that applies to all programs/libraries)´. JLIB is portable, > but are there better alternatives perhaps? I've never used GRX, is it good? > Allegro ofcourse exists, but isn't that better for games like programming? Actually, I write all my own mode 13h graphics stuff just because I prefer that way. I've never used any of the libs that you mentioned though I've got GRX 2.1 installed on my 386 B&W laptop & I've got both GRX 2.1 & Allegro 2.x on P120. My motivation for this project is to get my latop connected to the net because I have a working ext. US Robotics Courier 14.4k modem (I've tested it w/Qmode 4.6 test drive). What I want from this project is a GNU/FSF/freeware *DOS*(may somebody else can do a UNIX port but I'm only worried about DOS) web browser that isn't text only like DOS ports of LYNX. I'd like it also to support 386+ 4MB RAM machines, any modem, and any VGA card that can do 0x03 text mode, but also 0x12 640x480x16 graphics mode & 0x13 320x200x256 graphics mode along w/a few other X-modes & of course SVGA 640x480x8bit-32bit for people w/those systems. Saying this about the grafix capabilities, Allegro's use sounds tempting but I'm unsure of its portability & it's ability to run on 386(I think it requires a 486 to run make that comes w/it). I've never even read the JLIB docs so a link to some info on it would be cool because even my P120 only has a 14.4k modem & download speed suck on it.