Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole

[tzeruch@ceddec.com]

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:

> I'm about to abandon 3.0 and go back to 2.x. Or look at Explorer. The
> memory footprint went up dramatically (Macintosh version at least), so that
> I can no longer have all my favorite apps open. If I want to check stock
> quotes, I have to quit one of my other Internet apps.
> 
> The dancing Java ads are not worth it.
> 
> --Tim May

There is a windows console version of Lynx now.  You won't see the dancing
java ads, but will see your quotes.  If you want fancy tables, I have an
awk script which renders them.  A few more stupid AWK tricks (cygnus.com
has most GNU stuff ported), and you can type "getquote msft"  and have the
info without the ads appear.  And if "lynx -source" is too big, I have a
tiny URL to stdout program (which supports user/pass and SSL!).  It is
running now in a timed script that displays the quotes I want to a
virtual console.

Become an iconoclast, and crawl into a shell.