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 Message 7272 
 Maurice Kinal to Brad Hansen 
 Old Distro Broken Browser 
 29 Aug 21 00:41:00 
 
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Hey Brad!

 BH> They have killed the old school command line clients

That happened ages ago.  Here is something that might be of interest;

 # ldd /usr/bin/lynx
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe8ef4000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f65f8882000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f65f886f000)
        libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f65f8814000)
        libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 (0x00007f65f8793000)
        libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007f65f850e000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f65f8388000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f65f8381000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f65f8364000)
        /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f65f8899000)

 # file /usr/bin/lynx
 /usr/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux
4.4.0, stripped

 # lynx -version
 Lynx Version 2.8.9rel.1 (08 Jul 2018)
 libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1l, ncurses 6.2.20200212(wide)
 Built on linux-gnu (Aug 28 2021 06:12:20).

 Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
 the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
 Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
 See https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ and the online help for more
information.

 See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.

Not exactly backwards compatible but it most definetly is an old school
commandline client if there ever was one.  I've been using it for around 30
years now on a wide variety of platforms.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Cræfta gehwilc byþ cealde forgolden.
    Every deceit will be coldly repaid.
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