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WWW

On terminals which can not run mosaic, www should be used. www is a line mode browser, which allows you to access a wealth of information on the global internet. WWW can be invoked by typing www at the shell prompt.

You can find information by following references and/or by using keywords. References are numbers in [brackets] after particular phrases. Type the number and <RETURN> for more information on the phrase.

There are a number of commands which are available at the prompt within www. Some are disabled when not applicable. All commands may be abbreviated and case is not significant.

Some of the more useful commands are:

 
 Find <keywords>    		 Queries the current index with the
supplied keywords.

The interpretation of the keywords depends on the particular

information server you are looking at. In most cases, it will

search a database for entries matching the keywords, and will

display the results with possible links to further details. For

more complex queries, instructions should be present in the cover

page. The ``find'' command can be omitted if the first keyword

does not conflict with another www command.

Source Followed by another command, causes raw source to be

generated for that command. Useful for printing postscript files without formatting with SOURCE PRINT.

Print Prints the current document, without the numbered document

references. A background www is launched to do that, and its

output is piped to the command defined by the environment

variable WWW_PRINT_COMMAND (``lpr'' by default).

>file, >>file Saves or appends the current document to the given file,

without the numbered document references. A background www

is launched to do that.

|command Pipes the current document to the given command, without the

numbered document references. A background www is launched to

do that.

CD(or LCD) directory Changes the local working directory.



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Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995