Copyright © 1999-2001, A. Ito
Copyright © 2000-2001, K. Tokoro
The w3m is a pager with WWW capability, designed by A.Ito for unix systems. And it can be used as a text-mode WWW browser.
This copy of w3m 0.2.1 has been patched and compiled with using the emx 0.9d FIX 04 development tools.
To use the w3m, you need at least:
OS/2 WARP 3.0 or later.
(Codepage must be 819, 850, 897, 932, 942, 943 or 1252)
IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 (or the Internet Access Kit)
It can be found at: ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/emx+gcc/ or http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d/ or their mirrors.
The followings are optional:
GNU sed
It can be found at: http://www.perl.com/ or its mirrors.
GNU gzip
bzip2
When using this w3m on the terminal emulator like the xterm or the rxvt, you need the Xlib of the XFree86 3.3.3.1 or later.
The w3m works on the emacs. It can be found at: http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/emacs-w3m/. (This page is written only in Japanese.)
If there is an older version of w3m already installed, you should delete the old version. Installing a new version over an old version is not recommended.
Following files are the base packages:
w3m-0.2.1-??.zip
This package contains the English version of the w3m. It has been designed for use in the Latin-1 codepages 819, 850 and 1252.
This package contains the Japanese version of the w3m. It has been designed for use in the Shift_JIS codepage 897, 932, 942 and 943.
This package contains the common files for both of the above packages.
This package contains the document files.
To install them:
cd \
unzip w3m-0.2.1-common
unzip w3m-0.2.1-en (or w3m-0.2.1-ja)
unzip w3m-0.2.1-doc
All the extracted files will be installed in the /usr/local subdirectory or in subdirectories thereof.
Add X:\usr\local\bin
(insert the correct drive letter)
to your PATH, and set the following environment variables
(insert the correct drive letter):
set W3M_LIB_DIR=X:/usr/local/lib/w3m
(default: /usr/local/lib/w3m
without a drive letter)
set W3M_HELP_DIR=X:/usr/local/lib/w3m
(default: /usr/local/lib/w3m
without a drive letter)
set SYS_MAILCAP=C:/MPTN/ETC/mailcap
(default: /etc/mailcap
without a drive letter)
set HOME=X:\home\user1
(default: none)
set TERM=ansi
or something what you like;
Above set statements can be in your config.sys.
Finally, copy this document which is you are reading now and its relations into /usr/local/doc/w3m directory.
copy README.os2.html \usr\local\doc\w3m\
xcopy doc \usr\local\doc\w3m\doc-os2\
This version of the w3m uses the termifno database.
If you have not installed the ncurses or any programs that use it, unpack ncurses-term-0.5.2.zip to your home directory:
unzip ncurses-term-0.5.2 -d%HOME%
If you want to install the terminfo database to another directory, you must set the TERMINFO_DIRS environment variable.
set TERMINFO_DIRS=/usr/share/terminfo
(A drive letter is not valid for this. When extracted the ncurses-term-0.5.2.zip to %HOME%, this setting is not required.)
See the doc/build.html.