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Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS (Announce)

posted by ron Homepage E-mail, Australia, 15.11.2011, 12:05

> Thank you for testing the Dillo browser for DOS.
Always interested in DOS browsers. :)

> The enclosed user guide mentions that long file names are required.
Yes, I noticed that. That is why I tried with doslfn. Unfortunately, with doslfn loaded there was no connection with dhcp and my router.

> Without doslfn loaded Dillo will not find the truetype fonts.
Correct, it didn't.

> These have
> been ported from Linux and therefore have these long names. There are so
> many font names and these in bold, italic etc that one would have to rename
> the fonts to numbers I guess to get them into 8:3 format. The code in
> Dillo, FLTK plus Xlib would have to be changed for that too. So just load
> doslfn for now.
No point in me loading doslfn.
Dillo has no internet connection with it loaded.

> The .dillo and .flkt directories are in the ZIP archive, so they should
> already be present when you unzip the archive with doslfn loaded.

OK, I will try that again.

> Dillo will work without these, just output error messages that it could not
> find the files in these directories.
But the bookmarks are inside one of those sub-directories.
Bookmarks are pretty well vital for testing the browser.

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