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Re: w3 www browser

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From: William M. Perry
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 02:48
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sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu (Jeff Sweeney) writes:
>
>I tried to install the World Wide Web browser called 'w3'. This
>browser is an emacs-mode that is enabled by a number of emacs-lisp
>files. All the w3 files and the 'extra' files mentioned in the
>distribution compiled without error. After compiling and installing,
>I invoked w3 and tried to connect to a URL. w3 loaded without error
>but the connection failed after 5 tries:
>
>-- begin error --
>**************************************
>ERROR - COULD NOT ESTABLISH CONNECTION
>**************************************
>
>The browser could not establish a connection to inept.scubed.com:8001.
>
>The server is either down, or the
>URL(http://inept.scubed.com:8001/tax/tax.html) is malformed.
>-- end error --
>
>I know the URL is correct and running since I can reach it using
>xmosaic. I get the same error with other URL.

  Are you by any chance running on a sun?  On some (all?) sun machines
you need to link emacs with -lresolv or it won't be able to contact
your nameserver.  Try getting the URL:

http://192.31.70.208:8001/tax/tax.html

  If this works, you will need to ask your system administrator to
recompile emacs.  If this doesn't work either, check to make sure that
the function open-network-stream is defined... if not, try setting
w3-use-telnet to t, then try fetching the first URL again.

  If that doesn't work, send me mail and I will try to figure out what
is wrong.  You aren't behind a firewall are you?  The next version of
the emacs browser will have much more support for different
gateway/firewall types - am getting started coding it tonight.

>I also get an error on exiting emacs:
>
>Invalid function: (w3-kill-emacs-func)
>
>Any suggestions? I'm using emacs v18.57xx.

   This is a problem with emacs 18 - it expects the kill-emacs-hook to
be a single function, and dies if it is a list of functions, which is
not the standard behavior for run-hooks.  I'll be fixing it soon.

    Hope this helps,
	Bill P.
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From: wmperry@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: w3 www browser
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