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Grex Helpers Item 50: Help-seekers who want graphical browsers to run on grex
Entered by kaplan on Wed Nov 20 15:35:43 UTC 1996:

A help-seeker just told me he was trying to run a program called I-COMM.  Have
you heard of it?  He said it's a graphical web browser for non-graphical web
accounts.  It requires lynx or i-commhost to run.  He brought in the .tar.gz
for sun4 from an FTP site and it compiled but didn't run.

Has anyone here heard of I-COMM before?  If the kernel mods currently
permit non-members to run lynx, will they be able to run something like
I-COMM?  What do helpers need to do to discourage it besides point out how
poorly it will perform?

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by robh on Wed Nov 20 16:32:17 1996:

I've not heard of it before, but it bears looking into.
Did you get a copy of the source?

#2 of 7 by scg on Wed Nov 20 18:07:28 1996:

It presumably uses http for connecting to the web, and something else for
communicating with the client on the user's end.  I'm guessing whatever it
uses for communicating with the client on the user's end gets blocked here.

At any rate, we certainly don't have the bandwidth to support something like
that.  I don't think our agreement with ICNet allows us to either.

#3 of 7 by popcorn on Fri Nov 22 18:17:55 1996:

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#4 of 7 by saw on Sat Oct 3 03:21:20 1998:

I used to use I-Comm with a VMS shell account.  Basically, it runs Lynx
to dump the needed file (HTML,image, etc.) to the shell, then uses sz to
ZModem download it to the system running I-Comm, and then removes hte file
from the shell.  I used it years ago to get graphics on a VMS account
before we had PPP.  It'snot fully featured browser and there'sno Java, etc.
and by now it probably isn't even supported anymore.. iknow this topic is
old but i thought i'dpoint out how it works..  theoretically, if Grex
users can use lynx and sz and rm they're able to run this..

#5 of 7 by valerie on Sun Oct 4 00:59:21 1998:

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#6 of 7 by saw on Wed Oct 7 00:58:31 1998:

Well, actually, I don't see why the sz would be going across the Internet
link.  I would think the only people who would use I-Comm would be
dialing into groupie.  Now, if someone had, say, a dialup netcom shell,
and telnetted to Grex to use I-Comm, then that could cause it to tie up
the Internet link.  My advice would be if you have a dialup shell, use it
for your I-Comm and not Grex.  #1) It'll be faster.  #2) It won't slow
Grex down that way.  I don't even know if you can get I-Comm anymore though.

#7 of 7 by gsibbery on Mon Sep 10 18:50:30 2001:

Cool. This is the first I have ever heard of such a piece of software.

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