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- ANNOUNCING FUNNELWEB
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- Author : Ross Williams (ross@spam.adelaide.edu.au).
- Date : 27-May-1992.
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- FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool that emphasises
- simplicity and reliability. It provides a macro facility, and assists in the
- production of typeset documentation. FunnelWeb runs on most popular machines
- (Sun, VAX, Mac, PC) and its highly portable source code in C is freely
- available under a GNU license.
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- Features:
- + Provides a simple macro preprocessor facility.
- + Assists in the generation of typeset documentation.
- + Runs on Sun, VMS VAX, Macintosh, and PC.
- + Portable C source code distributed under GNU licence.
- + Comprehensive user's manual (115 pages).
- + Input programming language independent.
- + Allows complete control over the output text.
- + Regression test suite with over 200 tests.
- - Requires TeX to produce typeset documentation.
- - Typesets program code using TT font only.
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- How to Obtain FunnelWeb
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- FunnelWeb can be obtained by anonymous FTP from:
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- Machine : sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au [IP=129.127.40.3].
- Directory: ~pub/funnelweb/ (or a directory of similar name).
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- It is not clear at the time of writing whether FunnelWeb will be
- presented as a TAR file or as a directory tree or both.
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- --<End of Announcement>--
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