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- Jim Whitescarver writes....
-
- >We have an experimental server for our CWIS plus a special gateway
- >server. The ScreenMode interface can still be access via telnet to
- >eies2.njit.edu with the login www. You can try the manual page reader
- >their, or via http://eies2:1234/man. We make extensive use of the <PRE>
- >tag for preformatted text. Much of our hypertext, including the manual
- >pages, will not be formatted properly unless you use one of our readers,
- >or another reader modifies to support <PRE>.
-
- If you are using the MidasWWW browser you can add support for the <pre> (and </pre>) tag
- just by adding the following lines to the Midaswww.ad file
-
- midaswww*WWWHyper*pre.font: -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
- midaswww*WWWHyper*pre.breakBefore: SGMLBREAK_ALWAYS
- midaswww*WWWHyper*pre.breakAfter: SGMLBREAK_ALWAYS
- midaswww*WWWHyper*pre.tagList: SGMLAnchorText: a SGMLMarkerText: p
- midaswww*WWWHyper*pre.defaultClass: SGMLPlainText
- midaswww*WWWHyper*pre*p.breakBefore: SGMLBREAK_NEVER
-
- and replacing the line beginning midaswww*WWWHyper*default.tagList: with
-
- midaswww*WWWHyper*default.tagList: SGMLMarkerText: p isindex nextid
- SGMLCompositeText: address dl h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 dir menu pre SGMLListText: ul SGMLText:
- comment title SGMLPlainText: xmp listing plaintext SGMLAnchorText: a
-
- (this should be all one line even though it is probably wrapped in the message you are
- reading.)
-
- The "pre-formatted" man pages look good (try http://eies2.njit.edu:1234/man/cat for an
- example).
-
- Tony
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