w3m: WWW wo Miru Tool version 0.2.5 (C) Copyright by Akinori ITO January 31, 2002 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: * It can't show images inline. (See w3m-img info on the w3m homepage) * 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 2.0.30 FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.1, 3.2 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 2. Installation Follow these instructions to install w3m. 2.1 Run configure. The script will ask you a few questions. Answer them. 2.2 do make 2.3 do 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 See README.cygwin. 3. Copyright (C) Copyright 1994-2002 by Akinori Ito. Hans J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers, Xerox Corp. and Silicon Graphics have the copyright of the GC library comes with w3m package. 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 Feel free to send your opinion to the author. Akinori Ito Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp http://w3m.sourceforge.net/