Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:51:55 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Dirk GOUDERS <hank@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is w3m? Message-ID: <20000208205155.A329@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <200002080725.IAA02874@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> References: <20000207154307.C1906@marder-1> <200002080725.IAA02874@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 08:25:31AM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: >=20 > > >=20 > > > Could anybody please tell me, what 'w3m' is? > > >=20 > > >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > It is installed by the docproj meta-port, or can be found in > > /usr/ports/www/ >=20 > Thanks for the explanation Mark (and of course =1B$B>eNS$5$s!K=1B(B. > I found w3m and installed it successfully. >=20 > I also checked the Makefile for docproj and recognized, that w3m > doesn't show up as a dependency, but still does lynx. Does that need > a send-pr? (Currently I cannot check the archive...) >=20 Your ports tree is a tad out-of-date: % cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj % % egrep 'w3m|lynx|\$FreeBSD' Makefile # $FreeBSD: ports/textproc/docproj/Makefile,v 1.20 1999/12/30 22:53:15 nik = Exp $ w3m:${PORTSDIR}/www/w3m \ marder-1:/usr/ports/textproc/docproj{57}% > Dirk --=20 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
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