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Hi folks, I just managed to get the Arachne web suite for DOS work. Of course, I checked at once whether it was able to browse gopher sites. The answer is yes, at least partly. I wasn't able to use Cameron's Veronica engine, and everything on a gopher page is linkyfied. However, selectors are marked with a different icon depending on their content (see screenshot) and they work quite fine. If you don't have a mouse, tab and shift-tab combinations allow to choose the links you want. So, if you don't click on informational text on purpose, it's quite usable.

I've added a screenshot, and if you want to give it a try by yourself, it's not that hard: find the right packet driver for your network interface card if you use broadband or let Arachne detect your dial-up modem (my *winmodem* wasn't detected), download Arachne from http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc , make a boot diskette, boot with it. Then launch the packet driver, and then Arachne.

Well, I think Arachne deserves to be mentioned as gopher capable browser, especially given the fact that it doesn't need an installed OS. A simple boot diskette is enough, moreover there are not so many alternatives under DOS/FreeDOS.

Cheers.

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