On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Bernie wrote:
> Witek wrote:
> >I wanted to port WWWMAN to Linux, but it was too difficult and time
> >consuming, so I wrote a "light" version of WWWMAN in Perl.
> >
> >In mime.conf should be:
> >file/* >HTM|wwwman.pl $u>$2
> >
> >What do you think about?
> >I have a lot of time.
> >Any wishes?
>
> If we don't get *.jpg etc. to work I really don't see the point, especially
> since I have (or can get) C code that does the above. That (a binary) would
> also be better since you don't know that Perl is installed on the system.
> If you have a lot of time please by all means try and convert wwwman into a
> C version suitable for Linux (and DOS seperated with #defines) I suggest
> you start over from scratch since the code for wwwman is a mess IMHO (too
> many cooks, and the person who wrote it from the begining hadn't programmed
> much before). Converting insight is also something Michael earlier wanted
> done (this should be a lot easier).
For me, for example
file:/home/witek/*.jpg works, I don't know what you mean.
Perl is almost always installed, I sure Perl is more frequently installed
than 'convert' or 'djpeg', both used by Arachne.
Perl programs are faster to write(develop) and shorter than equivalent C
programs.
Instead of porting Insight to Linux I propose to write (I could write)
something like xterm, but better, for Arachne.
Then you could use any text-mode program eg. mail client like pine, elm,
mutt, irc clients, news readers, etc.
All of them you would be able to use without leaving Arachne (desktop
better than MSIE 10.0 :)).
In DOS version of Arachne I can't browse CDROMs with www off-line.
And the reason is lack of long filenames service in Arachne.
Ghostscript or Xpdf are ports from Linux(UNIX).
Memory and processor requirements of Arachne are similar for DOS and
Linux, so I don't know why people still use DOS and even
aren't trying Linux.
That above is a bit off-topic, I want to say that DOS is obsolete for me.
I'm interesting in Linux. For example JAVA for Arachne, JavaScript
compiler, CSS should be done for Linux first.
Regards,
Witek
