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From: mcoevoet@vub.ac.be (Marc Coevoet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
Subject: Phoenix WWW browser/editor Alpha Release 0.1.8
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Date: 22 Feb 1996 19:20:28 -0800
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[ This posting was edited a bit, after discussion with the poster -- cgd ]
Binaries for the Phoenix WWW browser/editor Alpha Release 0.1.8
for NetBSD/mac68k are available from:
http://orca.vub.ac.be/~mcoevoet/macbsd/index.html
Phoenix also compiles out of the box for NetBSD; see:
http://orca.vub.ac.be//~mcoevoet/macbsd/README.html
for information on how to get the Phoenix sources.
Here's the Readme(don't bother about the Installation section
if you don't want to compile yourself):
Phoenix -- Alpha Release 0.1.8
This is free and has been tested on SunSolaris 2.3 and is also
known to compile on many other platforms. Please send bug
reports to phoenix-bugs@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu.
Unfortunately, because of the volume of e-mail, we shall no
longer be responding to requests for help in installation.
COPYRIGHT 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 by The University of Chicago.
Phoenix is covered by the GNU General Public License included in this
distribution and may be redistributed accordingly.
Phoenix is built upon tkWWW 0.9 which is also covered by copyright.
Installation
Get the distribution
phoenix-0.1.8.tar.gz (1.9 MB), or
phoenix-0.1.8.tar.Z (2.9 MB).
Files ending with .gz can be expanded with gunzip
from Gnu and those ending with .Z can be expanded
using the UNIX program uncompress or gunzip.
The links to the current distribution may be purposely
broken if a new version is imminent. In such a case,
please try again the following day.
Decompress and untar the distribution.
To compile with "cc" type:
setenv CC cc
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
Use "setenv CC gcc" for compiling with gcc.
This will put the executable binaries in /usr/local/bin
and the Tcl scripts in /usr/local/lib/phoenix. If you
wish them to be somewhere else, replace /usr/local
with the full path name of the desired location. (Note
that you may not use tilde-notation (~) to signify home
directories.
Phoenix comes with its own Tcl interpreter so there is
no need to install one on your own. If you have your
own, Phoenix will neither make use of it, nor overwrite
it. We hope to be able to take advantage of existing
Tcl/Tk installations in future versions of Phoenix.
Phoenix can be configured so that it will understand
which URL's correspond to files on your local disk.
Edit lines 28-52 of /usr/local/lib/phoenix/config.tcl
to tell Phoenix what it needs to know.
To run phoenix, type phoenix.
Installation Notes
Currently, if you're not directly connected to the
internet, you may get into an infinite loop when you
start phoenix. To prevent this, remove (or comment
out) the line near the end of the installed
lib/phoenix/main.tcl which reads
phxW3ModeGoto $tkW3ConfigStartPage
Many, if not all, 24-bit color displays are not
supported by Tcl/Tk upon which Phoenix is built. Until
this is fixed, you cannot run Phoenix on these displays.
Phoenix does not seem to compile with XFree-3.1
(X11R6). Compile under XFree-2.1.1 (X11R5)
instead. You can still run Phoenix under X11R6.
Documentation
The existing help pages are old -- new documentation is not
yet available. For starters:
A light gray background indicates "edit mode," a dark
gray background indicates "browse mode." Browsing
features are disabled while editing, and vice-versa.
The ability to edit lists is broken.
Forms are not editable except that individual pieces
may be deleted from an existing page.
To create a link (in edit mode): Select some text or an
image. Chose "Edit Anchor" under the "Edit" menu.
Type in the URL or follow links in any other Phoenix
window which is in Browse mode. Each link followed
changes the URL in the Edit Anchor dialog box.
Alternatively, hit the target (below the phoenix in the
upper righthand corner) to cause the URL of the
currently displayed page to be sent to the dialog box.
Follow Up
If you find bugs in Phoenix, please let us know.
phoenix-help@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu
--
Regards,
Marc
(I have no network, I ran phoenix with
phxW3ModeGoto $tkW3ConfigStartPage commented in
the main.tcl file, see Installation Notes)
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Marc Coevoet, BFUCC email: mcoevoet@vub.ac.be
Adolphe Buyllaan 91, phone: ++ 32 2 650 37 07
1050 Brussels, Belgium fax: ++ 32 2 650 37 40
http://orca.vub.ac.be/~mcoevoet
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