UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 4, Page TT-4
September 21, 1995
TechTalk
Browsers

How do you look at information on the Web? You use a program called a
"browser." Netscape and Lynx are the two browsers most people at the
University are using.


Netscape
     Like all browsers, Netscape makes it easy for you to locate and
retrieve information stored on the Web.
     Netscape can display formatted text, images, sounds and movies;
download information; search documents and databases; and contain
hypertext links to Gopher sources and FTP sites. The hypertext links
can appear as text or as graphics.
     You can use Netscape either from a PC that has a Netscape browser
installed and is directly connected to the campus network or by
logging in to the University's central UNIX system using an X
terminal.


Lynx
     If your computer does not have graphics capabilities, you can use
a browser program called Lynx. Using Lynx, you can read the text of a
Web document, but you can't see the graphic images. The hypertext
links appear as boldface or underlined text rather than as graphics.
     You can use Lynx by logging in to the University's central UNIX
system and typing the command

          lynx

at the UNIX prompt.