Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:43:07 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is w3m? Message-ID: <20000207154307.C1906@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <200002041505.QAA04322@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de> References: <200002041505.QAA04322@musashi.et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
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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
>
>
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