Re: Starting w3m: error

[Meph Istopheles <meph Aeon-AL Com>]

  Wolfgang,

> after trying some more things:

> I quit the pipe method now

> .... man w3m:
> --------------------------------------
> [ ... ]
>
> -T type
>               specify content-type
> [ ... ]
> -------------------------------------

> (it seems to be a rather new version I'm using, I'm not sure whether the
> versions before had a manual .. this version now has even mouse-support
> for clicking links ... :) ....)

  Well, the coder is Japanese, so though there is ~some~ English
documentation, the real trouble is all the "patched" versions by
other coders out there.  Did you download your version from one
of the Tokyo mirrors?  I'd found that numerous things just go
wrong till I realized that there's just no point but to get it
from the originator's locations.

> problem seems, w3m is not documented very well, and I have to try (and
> error) a lot to find out things ... :)

  Ain't it always the way?;-)

> > you have in mind, perhaps it's just a matter of changing the case
> > from T to t.

  Oh no.  Evidently this new option does an eitirely different
thing.  Also, which compile did you choose?  I've found that only
up to the Cookie version seems to work for RedHat 6.0 & 6.2,
Mandrake 7.2 as well; except the Full compile had worked in
Mandrake 8.0.  Naturally, I believe that has a lot to do with a
combination of installed libraries & XFree86 4.x.

> ... changed the case to -t, and it didn't work (-T works to start w3m-en,
> but it does not start w3m ...)

  Hmm.  Are you starting w3m with the full:

w3m file://path/to/your/file.html

or just with

w3m

now that you've stipped piping cat?

  The only thing I can suggest, if you ~had~ downloaded from some
other location, go to ftp://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/w3m &
compile it.  Otherwise, I'm at a loss.  Sorry.

  Meph

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