OK, a couple of quick thoughts, based on my own experience. Yes, you can
run Lynx, etc from DOS. However, it's much, much slower and requires messin
around with packet drivers and dial-up networking. Linux has that built-in
automatically and almost always just works. I never got Lynx to run in
plain DOS because I couldn't find a packet driver and TCP/IP software for my
network card, which is one of the big reasons why I switched to Windows 98
and the command prompt. The second issue is that, due to DOS memory
limitations, the ports will have a lot less features unless they use djgpp
and a DOS extender to get around the 640 KB limit. That's called protected
mode and again, Linux doesn't have that limitation. Finally, Lynx at least
used direct screen writes, so Vocal-Eyes didn't automatically read the
screen without a set file. In Linux and Cygwin, it was able to read fine on
its own because it used BIOS writes. Lynx in Linux is literally at least
twice as fast as DOS as I'm sure you've seen from Shellworld.
On 3/4/2013 11:03 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Still if elinks and mplayer exist ported for DOS, why go through the extreme
mayhem of finding someone local enough to learn speakup and ora and so forth
to teach me in the first place?
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