Re: lynx-dev LYNX: hey, guys: Just what are we gonna *DO*?

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:03:45PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >  You should use a commandline option:
> > 
> > links -g
> >     to start it in X (and some other switch to start it with SVGAlib).
> >  Default mode is text mode.
> 
> hmm (running links -g)

 I'm impressed by your ignorance of links :)
 
> looks as if they just glued a wad of Gtk onto links, which does explain
> the relative sizes of the tarballs:
> 
>        446820 May 16 18:44 elinks-0.3.0.tar.bz2
>        449795 Jan  2  2001 links-0.95.tar.gz
>        485442 Jul  2  2001 links-0.96.tar.gz
>        545723 Jul 13 11:26 links-0.98.tar.gz
>       3509541 Jun 29 15:38 links-2.1pre2.tar.bz2
> 
> (the tar.gz/tar.bz2 would typically add another 30%)
> 
> executables (0.98 and 2.1pre2)
> 
>       1563825 links
>       3290100 links2
> 
> I'm not impressed...

 Nope, they embedded fonts into executable in order not to store them as
external files (MSish ways - all in one).
 BTW they do font antialiasing (this may slow down working with links
remotely though)..

 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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