The CERN Line Mode Browser is a character based World-Wide Web Browser.
It is developed for use on dumb terminals and as a test tool for the
CERN Common Code Library. It can be run in interactive mode, non-
interactive mode and as a proxy client. Furthermore it gives a variety
of possibilities for data format conversion, filtering etc. It is
primarily intended as a test-tool for quick access to the Web or
used in batch jobs.
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CERN Line Mode Browser 2.15 is available, source code:
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/src/WWWLineMode_2.15.tar.Z
Precompiled binaries are available for Sun4, Solaris 2, HP Snake,
NeXT, NeXT-386, Decstation Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, SGI and AIX. They can be
found at
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/bin/<your_platform>/www_2.15.tar.Z
Look also at the list of other platforms supported at
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Library/User/Platform/Platform.html
Documentation is available at
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Status.html
The current address to send email about CERN Line Mode Browser is:
www-bug@info.cern.ch or
libwww@info.cern.ch
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CERN Line Mode Browser Release Notes
As always, most of the added features in the Line Mode Browser are a
result of changes to the CERN Library of Common Code. However, the
following new features deserve to be mentioned:
* Introduced a more sophisticated verbose mode that takes parameter
after the -v option. This feature is implemented due to an excessive
amount of verbose output from the Library and the Browser. The -v
option can now be followed by none, one, or more of the following
characters:
a Anchor relevant information
p Protocol Modules
s SGML/HTML information
u URI management
The -v flag alone turns on all trace messages. This feature is a
result of a more advanced TRACE management in the Library of
Common Code
* LineMode Browser now supports direct WAIS access. If it is compiled
with the same WAIS flags in the Makefile as the CERN server then it
can access a WAIS server directly.
* New command line feature: -m <method> where <method> is one of
GET or HEAD
This will later get extended to also include other HTTP methods
* Cyrillic support added for Line Mode Browser. This is a patch from
Anton Tropashko, agl@glas2.glas.apc.org
* Bug where the Browser prompted the user a UserID and Password in
non-interactive mode fixed. Now non-interactive _really_
means non-interactive.
* The common BUILD for the Line Mode Browser, the CERN Server and the Library
of common code now accepts a command line option:
BUILD linemode | daemon | library
to build a specific component. The default action is to build all three
parts. BUILD is now also provided in a Bourne Shell version
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