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The Line Mode Browser was designed to be able to be [[Cross-platform#Platform-independent_software|platform independent]]. There are official ports to [[Apollo/Domain]],<ref name="Tim-install">{{cite web|url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BF/src/WWW/WWWLineMode/LineMode/Defaults/Installation.html|title=Installation|last=Berners-Le|first=Tim|accessdate=16 November 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111120246/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BF/src/WWW/WWWLineMode/LineMode/Defaults/Installation.html|archivedate=11 January 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> [[RS6000|IBM RS6000]],<ref name="Tim-install"/> DECStation/ultrix,<ref name="Tim-install"/> VAX/VMS,<ref name="Tim-install"/> VAX/Ultrix,<ref name="Tim-install"/> [[MS-DOS]],<ref name="living">{{cite web|first=Bill|last=Stewart|title=Web Browser History|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm|publisher=Living Internet|accessdate=2 June 2010}}</ref> [[Unix]],<ref name="living" /><ref name="os">{{cite web|title=List of Platforms for libwww|url=http://www.w3.org/Library/User/Platform/|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|accessdate=9 June 2010|authorlink=Henrik Frystyk Nielsen|first=Henrik Frystyk|last=Nielsen|date=1 April 1999}}</ref> [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]],<ref name="os" /> [[Classic Mac OS]],<ref name="os" /> [[Linux]],<ref name="os" /> [[MVS]],<ref name="people">{{cite web|title=WWW people|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/People.html#9|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|accessdate=15 June 2010}}</ref> [[VM (operating system)|VM/CMS]],<ref name="people" /> [[FreeBSD]],<ref name="physionet">{{cite web|title=W3C libwww libraries|url=http://physionet.incor.usp.br/physiotools/libwww/|work=PhysioNet|publisher=[[University of São Paulo]]|accessdate=30 May 2010|___location=Cambridge, MA|date=19 March 2008}}</ref> [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]],<ref name="physionet" /> and to [[macOS]].<ref name="physionet" /> The browser supports many protocols like [[File Transfer Protocol]] (FTP), [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]], [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol]] (HTTP), [[Network News Transfer Protocol]] (NNTP), and [[Wide area information server]] (WAIS).<ref name="linemodechangehistory" /><ref name="newsletter92" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Defining a News Server|url=http://www.w3.org/LineMode/User/NewsServer.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|accessdate=28 June 2010|authorlink1=Tim Berners-Lee|first1=Tim|last1=Berners-Lee|authorlink2=Henrik Frystyk Nielsen|first2=Henrik Frystyk|last2=Nielsen|date=9 December 1996}}</ref>

Other features included [[rlogin]]<ref name="newsletter92">{{cite web|title=What's new in '92|url=http://www.w3.org/News/9201.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|accessdate=25 July 2010|authorlink=Tim Berners-Lee|first=Tim|last=Berners-Lee|date=January 1992}}</ref> and [[telnet]]<ref name="newsletter92" /> [[hyperlink]]s, [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] support (added aton 25 November 1994 in version 2.15),<ref name="linemodechangehistory" /> and ability to be set up as a [[proxy server|proxy]] client.<ref>{{cite web|title=Libwww – the W3C Sample Code Library README|url=http://www.w3.org/README.html#Line|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|accessdate=11 August 2010|authorlink=Henrik Frystyk Nielsen|first=Henrik Frystyk|last=Nielsen|date=9 August 1997}}</ref> The browser could run as a [[background process]] and download files.<ref name="HTMLsource" /> The Line Mode Browser has had problems recognizing [[Character entity reference|character entities]], properly collapsing [[Whitespace character|whitespace]], and supporting tables and [[Framing (World Wide Web)|frames]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Tobias|first=Daniel R.|title="Brand-X" Browsers – Alphabetical List: A-G|url=http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/a-g.html|accessdate=5 July 2010|date=4 April 2010}}</ref>

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