Installation Guide for W3Browse on WinCE


Introduction

W3Browse is a text-based web-browser used for displaying various types of hypertext documents and provides capabilities to improve accessibility and evaluation of them. Support for reading, composing and managing e-mails is also provided by w3browse, as well as the possibility to create, maintain and search off-line caches. Many further features are offered by internal applets.

Inline images are replaced by appropriate texts and framesets are transformed to nested lists with links to the frames. Scripts and style sheets are ignored. Many formatting and displaying parameters can be set to preferred values by the user in order to get reasonable and appealing text representations of pages.

The user interface of w3browse is based on a text window manager that operates either on a tty or within a native GUI window of the system. It can be controlled completely by a keyboard or by a pointer device, but a keyboard may be required for input of text.

W3Browse has been designed to be mostly platform independent and is therefore able to run on a wide variety of systems including UNIX/Linux and MS-Windows.


Installation

The ZIP-archive w3browse.zip contains the following files in a subdirectory named w3browse:

w3browse.exe       main program of w3browse
w3browse.rdf       default configuration file, adapted for WinCE
installe.*       installation guide in english
installd.*       installation guide in german
license.txt       license of w3browse

In order to install w3browse just unpack the archive w3browse.zip in a directory, a subdirectory named w3browse will be created.


Running W3Browse

The general calling sequence for w3browse is:

    \PATH\TO\BROWSER\w3browse.exe [-termxsrv ip-address[:port]] [URL]

\PATH\TO\BROWSER should be replaced by the complete installation path of w3browse.

The possible parameters of w3browse.exe are:

-termxsrv       Instructs w3browse to use a termxsrv connection to the server specified by ip-address[:port] for display. The default port is 8162.
URL       Specifies the URL of a document that should be fetched and displayed directly after startup of the application.

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