w3m: WWW wo Miru Tool version 0.4.1
(C) Copyright by Akinori ITO Mar 7, 2003
1. Introduction
w3m is a pager with WWW capability. It IS a pager, but it can be
used as a text-mode WWW browser.
The features of w3m are as follows:
* When reading HTML document, you can follow links and view images
(using external image viewer).
* It has 'internet message mode', which determines the type of document
from header. If the Content-Type: field of the document is text/html,
that document is displayed as HTML document.
* You can change URL description like 'http://hogege.net' in plain text
into link to that URL.
Current problems are:
* Online manuals are poor.
w3m is known to work on these platforms.
SunOS4.1.x
HP-UX 9.x, 10.x
Solaris2.5.x
Linux 2.0.*/2.2.*/2.4.*
FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 4.6
NetBSD/macppc, m68k
EWS4800 Rel.12.2 Rev.A
Digital UNIX: v3.2D, v4.0D
IRIX 5.3, IRIX 6.5
OS/2 with emx
Windows 9x/NT with Cygwin32 b20.1
MS-DOS with DJGPP and WATT32 packet driver
MacOS X Server
MacOS X 10.1, 10.2
2. Installation
Follow these instructions to install w3m.
- You need latest version of GC library (at least 6.1?).
You can get GC libbrary from
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/
Note: if you're using GC library 6.1, you should install gc.h
to PREFIX/include:
# cp gc-6.1/include/gc.h PREFIX/include
- Run configure.
% ./configure
- do make
% make
- do make install
# make install
MACHINE/OS specific notices:
HP-UX
If you want to use HP C compiler, answer
Input your favorite C-compiler.
(Default: cc) cc -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE
If you use just 'cc' without options, you can't compile w3m.
If you are using gcc, no option is needed.
OS/2
You can compile w3m using emx. First you have to do
is to compile GC library with
cd gc
make -f EMX_MAKEFILE
then compile w3m. I heard that OS/2 console can't
display color, you had better compile w3m without
color capability.
Windows
To compile w3m on MS-Windows, you have to use Cygwin with
development tools.
Read README.cygwin for more details.
3. Copyright
(C) Copyright 1994-2002 by Akinori Ito.
4. License
Use, modification and redistribution of this software is hereby granted,
provided that this entire copyright notice is included on any copies of
this software and applications and derivations thereof.
This software is provided on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied, as to any matter including, but not
limited to warranty of fitness of purpose, or merchantability, or
results obtained from use of this software.
5. Author
Initial author:
Akinori Ito
Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University
aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp
Feel free to send your opinion to the w3m mailing-lists.
w3m-dev@mi.med.tohoku.ac.jp (Japanese)
w3m-dev-en@mi.med.tohoku.ac.jp (English)
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
