From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 7 7:50:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DA9A4140 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 07:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10419 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2000 15:51:16 -0000 Received: from usercb33.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.200) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2000 15:51:16 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA02757; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:43:07 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:43:07 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is w3m? Message-ID: <20000207154307.C1906@marder-1> References: <200002041505.QAA04322@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200002041505.QAA04322@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 04:05:51PM +0100, gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de wrote: > Hello, > > some days ago, it was the first time that I tried to create a plain > text version of my growing version of the German FAQ. The make failed > with: > > w3m -S -dump book.html > book.txt > w3m: not found > > Could anybody please tell me, what 'w3m' is? > > It's a text-only browser. It replaced lynx as the default text-only browser for the Doc project a while ago (ISTR the Japanese translation team said that it handled their character sets better than Lynx, or something like that). Check the -doc archives for the details. It is installed by the docproj meta-port, or can be found in /usr/ports/www/ HTH. > (The reason why I wanted to see a plain text version was that > with literallayout maked up parts of the document do not show up very > nice in a browser, if someone doesn't use a fixed size font. Seems > as if literallayout is thought to produce something like a > preformatted part, what is not the case...) > > Dirk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message