# Welcome to the libwww Distribution

     	(c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
     	Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.

Welcome to the libwww! You have just unpacked one of our distribution files and can find the contents in the `w3c-libwww-x.x` directory where `x.x` indicates the version. Please read the README file in this directory for details on how to go on from here. The README file gives you information about what each distribution file contains and what you need in order to compile and build one or more of the applications. You can find the complete W3C software distribution at

    	http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Distribution.html

All our software distribution packages contain documentation written in HTML. You can therefore use your favorite browser to browse through the documentation locally so that you do not need to use the network. Please read the README file in each of the application directories in order to find the top page of the documentation for each module. For example, the README file for the W3C Sample Code Library can be found in

    	w3c-libwww-x.x/Library/README

If you do not have a browser then please continue and build the Line Mode Browser (www) which you can find in the directory

     	w3c-libwww-x.x/LineMode

If you can not find this directory then please download the Line Mode Browser distribution file from

     	http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/LineMode/

or by using anonymous FTP to `ftp.w3.org`. When the Line Mode Browser is built then you can use this application to browse through the documentation.

If you encounter problems or would like to feed back suggestions, good ideas etc. then please send a mail to libwww@w3.org noting the version of the distribution files that you are using.