[Coco] internet access

[Aaron Wolfe]

I'm familiar with the networking capabilities in drivewire. I wrote them :)

The problem with web browsing (and since HTML email has become so
prevalent, also email) is that rendering HTML content in 64k is
impractical.    Even text based browsers like links/lynx/etc require
megabytes of ram to operate.

There are some simple tools to strip text from html that can sort of work
in a pinch, I used to include one of them on the drivewire extras disk. Not
sure if its still there.  However these are not rendering the content at
all, just trying to dump readable portions of the HTML.  With modern web
content its more and more difficult to get anything useful using this
technique.

Could a browser be done? Sure, for some very limited definition of
browser.  However, using your coco to surf or read (html) email isn't
something I see being practical.  It would be quite difficult to actually
communicate using such a tool.
On May 25, 2014 6:32 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> That may change soon, as I am currently doing a full FTP client through
> DriveWire and Bill Pierce I think, is doing a lot more with Mshell.  I
> don’t see why we can’t do Email as well.  Protocol isn’t that difficult
> through DriveWire, so possibilities are endless now.
>
> Bill Nobel
>
> On May 25, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>
> > On 05/25/2014 04:15 PM, keithclark1966 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Is there any way for my coco to access the internet to check email and
> do
> >> some text based surfing using drivewire 4?  I don't seem to be able to
> find
> >> any instructions for the advanced features.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Keith
> >>
> > At this point the only way to do stuff like that realistically is to run
> a terminal emulator on the CoCo and a text-based email or web client on the
> PC.  Programs that come to mind are [e]l[iy]n[ksx], elm, pine.
> >
> > JCE
> >
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