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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<chapter id="basicnet-textweb">
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<?dbhtml filename="textweb.html"?>
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<title>Text Web Browsers</title>
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<para>People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question "Why on
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earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile
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<application>X</application> and use
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<application>Konqueror</application>/<application>Mozilla</application>/Whatever!".
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Those who have been around systems for a while
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know that when (not if) you manage to mess up your graphical browser install
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and you need to look up some information on the web, a console based browser
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will save you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of
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these browsers as their principle method of browsing; either to avoid the
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clutter and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a
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text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for instance
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to partially sighted or blind users). We currently have installation
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instructions for three console web browsers:</para>
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<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="links.xml"/>
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<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="lynx.xml"/>
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<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="w3m.xml"/>
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</chapter>
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