1 w3m: WWW wo Miru Tool version 0.5.2 May 31, 2007
2 (C) Copyright Akinori ITO
8 w3m is a pager with WWW capability. It IS a pager, but it can be
9 used as a text-mode WWW browser.
11 The features of w3m are as follows:
13 * When reading HTML document, you can follow links and view images
14 (using external image viewer).
15 * It has 'internet message mode', which determines the type of document
16 from header. If the Content-Type: field of the document is text/html,
17 that document is displayed as HTML document.
18 * You can change URL description like 'http://hogege.net' in plain text
19 into link to that URL.
23 * Online manuals are poor.
25 w3m is known to work on these platforms.
29 Solaris 2.5.x, 2.6, 8, 9
30 Linux 2.0.*/2.2.*/2.4.*/2.6.*
31 FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 4.6
33 EWS4800 Rel.12.2 Rev.A
34 Digital UNIX: v3.2D, v4.0D
37 Windows 9x/NT with Cygwin b20.1, 1.1.x, 1.3.x
38 MS-DOS with DJGPP and WATT32 packet driver
40 MacOS X 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
44 Follow these instructions to install w3m.
46 - You need latest version of GC library (at least 6.1?).
47 You can get GC library from
48 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/
50 Note: if you're using GC library 6.1, you should install gc.h
52 # cp gc-6.1/include/gc.h PREFIX/include
63 MACHINE/OS specific notices:
66 If you want to use HP C compiler, answer
68 Input your favorite C-compiler.
69 (Default: cc) cc -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE
71 If you use just 'cc' without options, you can't compile w3m.
72 If you are using gcc, no option is needed.
75 You can compile w3m using emx. First you have to do
76 is to compile GC library with
81 then compile w3m. I heard that OS/2 console can't
82 display color, you had better compile w3m without
86 To compile w3m on MS-Windows, you have to use Cygwin with
88 Read README.cygwin for more details.
92 (C) Copyright 1994-2002 by Akinori Ito
93 (C) Copyright 2002-2007 by Akinori Ito, Hironori Sakamoto, Fumitoshi Ukai
97 Use, modification and redistribution of this software is hereby granted,
98 provided that this entire copyright notice is included on any copies of
99 this software and applications and derivations thereof.
101 This software is provided on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any
102 kind, either expressed or implied, as to any matter including, but not
103 limited to warranty of fitness of purpose, or merchantability, or
104 results obtained from use of this software.
110 Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University
115 Tohoku University Hospital
118 Feel free to send your opinion to the w3m mailing-lists.
119 w3m-dev@sic.med.tohoku.ac.jp (Japanese)
120 w3m-dev-en@sic.med.tohoku.ac.jp (English)
121 http://w3m.sourceforge.net/