Installing the line mode WWW browser on VM

Installing www on VM

This is possible, and has been done at CERN and Rutherford labs, for example. However, the latest version has probably not been done. Because no two VM systems seem to be the same, you may have to change things in order to find things like libraries and standard C header files.

Here are some files which were used during the last port to VM. The C and H files are all the same as the unix distribution: take the LineMode and Library tar files.

(If you are at or connected to CERNVM you can of course pick up the WWW EXEC and WWW MODULE from the public disks there.)

Note that compiling with (DEF(VM,IBM,DEBUG,SHORT_NAMES)) selects the code options for VM, in particular replaces long identifiers which are ambiguous when truncated with short identifiers. Do not worry about warnings about truncated identifiers, only worry about errors when two different identifiers are truncated to the same thing.

WWW EXEC
Runs WWW MODULE .
MakeW EXEC
Generates the WWW MODULE from sources. See note on XA running below.

Under VM/XA

Andrew Sansum writes, "Well I've now got the WWW line mode browser going on VM. All it needed were a couple of extra options on the CMOD command of MAKEW, the AMODE and RMODE options allow XA mode to work. The RLDSAVE makes the module relocatable (at the cost of increased size), allowing users to run the module who have machines configured differently from the machine that built it.
'EXEC CMOD 'sources' (AMODE ANY RMODE ANY RLDSAVE MODNAME' modname



Tim BL