Libwww - the W3C Sample Code Library README

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

When you download a libwww distribution file, you get the following components:

• a list of new features
• installation guide
• libwww source code,
• libwww documentation, and the
• W3C Copyright Statement

You also get some sample applications that show how to use libwww including the Line Mode Browser, the Web Command Tool, and the Mini Robot.

Handling the Distribution Files

A distribution file contains the source code and documentation for the Library and the example applications. You can get the distribution files from the Library top page All distribution files are available as compressed tar files, gzipped tar files, or as zip files. For the compressed tar files, first uncompress and untar the file w3c-libwww-X.X.tar.Z where X is the version number, for example 4.0:

uncompress w3c-libwww-X.X.tar.Z
 
 gunzip w3c-libwww-X.X.tar.gz

Then untar the file by typing

tar xf w3c-libwww-X.X.tar

For the zip files, type the following:

unzip w3c-libwww-X.X.zip 

Installation

You are now ready to install libwww - please look at the special installation documentation

Got Problems or Comments?

If you encounter problems, would like to feed back suggestions good ideas etc. then please send a mail <www-lib@w3.org>

Have fun!