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:
>
> > >
> > > 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/
>
> Thanks for the explanation Mark (and of course $B>eNS$5$s!K(B.
> I found w3m and installed it successfully.
>
> 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...)
>
Your ports tree is a tad out-of-date: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
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