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- Compiling and Running ViolaWWW
- ==============================
-
- To compile, type 'BUILD' to run the compilation script. If the compilation
- process goes well, two executable program binaries will be generated
- and they can be found in:
-
- viola/src/viola/viola <-- the pure XLib version
- viola/src/vw/vw <-- the Motif version
-
-
- The 'viola' binary (in src/viola/viola) is the XLib-only version of
- ViolaWWW. It is provided because not everyone has Motif. Also, this
- binary version is smaller. However, the GUIs on the Motif version of
- viola is still more polished. 'vw' (in src/vw/vw) is the ViolaWWW
- with the Motif shell.
-
- If you do not have Motif installed on your system, the 'vw' binary
- will simply fail to build, but the production of the 'viola' binary
- should not be affected.
-
- This package requires X11R5, and the Motif version of ViolaWWW
- requires a Motif toolkit library. The libwww(2.14) that comes with
- ViolaWWW is modified, so until the changes are integrated into CERN's,
- don't use the libwww that didn't come with viola.
-
- I'd appreciate hearing about compilation success or horror stories
- (and get patches) for platforms other than SunOS and Ultrix.
-
-
- Installing ViolaWWW
- ===================
-
- Both binaries can be installed anywhere in your path.
-
- To ensure that the colors come out decent, insert the following
- XWindows Resource into your "~/.Xdefaults" file.
-
- ------------------------------------------
- Viola.x: 550
- Viola.y: 10
- Viola.width: 620
- Viola.height: 700
- #ifdef COLOR
- Viola*foreground: black
- Viola*background: grey80
- Viola.foreground_doc: black
- Viola.background_doc: grey90
- #else
- Viola*foreground: white
- Viola*background: black
- Viola*borderColor: white
- #endif
- ------------------------------------------
-
- Then do this to update the X resources, to let it take effect:
- % xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
-
-
- Running ViolaWWW
- ================
-
- Both ViolaWWW programs can take the start up document URL as an argument,
- thusly:
-
- % viola [url]
- % vw [url]
-
- If you do not supply any argument, the default URL is taken from
- the WWW_HOME environment variable. In liu of WWW_HOME, the fall back
- URL is "http://berkeley.ora.com/proj/viola/violaHome.html"
-
-
- Contact
- =======
-
- You can send mail to viola@ora.com. Feedbacks, bug reports, patches,
- constructive criticisms, etc, are always welcome. Let me offer my
- sincere apologies, in advance, in case I do not get back to you promptly--
- I am the whole viola development team, and I do have other things
- to attend to... but I will try to be prompt.
-
-
- Acknowledgements
- ================
-
- In particular, many thanks to: Tim Bernners-Lee for inventing the WWW;
- Tim and the CERN crew for the libwww; All the contributors on www-talk etc;
- Jon Blow (ORA) for the lexical analyzer used in viola; Scott Silvey (ORA)
- for creating the Motif front-end; Terry Allen (ORA) for lots of testings
- and help with SGML; Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly for supporting the
- work on viola at ORA.
-
- Also, grateful thanks are extended to the brave beta testers, listed in
- "http://xcf.berkeley.edu/ht/projects/viola/betaTesters.html".
-
-
- Pei Y. Wei (wei@ora.com)
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
-