On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:
I'm about to abandon 3.0 and go back to 2.x. Or look at Explorer. The memory footprint went up dramatically (Macintosh version at least), so that I can no longer have all my favorite apps open. If I want to check stock quotes, I have to quit one of my other Internet apps.
The dancing Java ads are not worth it.
--Tim May
There is a windows console version of Lynx now. You won't see the dancing java ads, but will see your quotes. If you want fancy tables, I have an awk script which renders them. A few more stupid AWK tricks (cygnus.com has most GNU stuff ported), and you can type "getquote msft" and have the info without the ads appear. And if "lynx -source" is too big, I have a tiny URL to stdout program (which supports user/pass and SSL!). It is running now in a timed script that displays the quotes I want to a virtual console. Become an iconoclast, and crawl into a shell.