Contents

• Software requirements
• Installing the base packages
• Setting up the terminfo database
• How to compile the w3m
• Update history

Software requirements

• 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)

  • emx 0.9d FIX 04 or newer runtime (emxrt.zip).

    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

  • Perl 5

    It can be found at: http://www.perl.com/ or its mirrors.

  • GNU gzip

  • bzip2

  • XFree86/OS2

    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.

  • w3m.el

    The w3m works on the emacs. It can be found at: http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/emacs-w3m/. (This page is written only in Japanese.)

Installing the base packages

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

  • w3m-0.2.1-en.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.

  • w3m-0.2.1-ja.zip

    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.

• w3m-0.2.1-common.zip

  This package contains the common files for both of the above packages.

• w3m-0.2.1-doc.zip

  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;
  (If you want to know which TERM is better for your display, see doc/screen-shot.html)

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\

Setting up the terminfo database

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.)

How to compile the w3m

See the doc/build.html.

Update history

• 0.2.1-3
  • Applied followin patches: (Each linked page has been written in Japanese)
    • [w3m-dev 01703] Re: regex patch (by H. Sakamoto)
    • [w3m-dev 01894] fixed terms.c (by H. Sakamoto)
    • [w3m-dev 01898] Handling of arbitrary number of <select> and <textarea> (by A. Ito)
    • [w3m-dev 01916] simplify localcgi_{post|get} (by T. Okada)
    • [w3m-dev 01926] Re: table rendering of www.asahi.com (by K. Suto)
    • [w3m-dev 01934] Re: O_BINARY in Win32 and OS/2 (by K. Watanabe)
    • [w3m-dev 01942] Switch stdout to binary mode for the -dump_source option (by me)
    • [w3m-dev 01970] Re: O_BINARY in Win32 and OS/2 (by me)
• 0.2.1-1
  • New upstream version.
  • [w3m-dev 01914] Patches to compile the w3m 0.2.1 on OS/2 with using the emx (by me)
• 0.1.x
  • Previous versions were ported and were compiled only for using on Japanese versions of OS/2 WARP.