This page provides information on software utilities installed locally to make your Web surfing more enjoyable (we hope). The information provided here is for local CITHEP use only and is subject to change.

External software packages are installed in the /WWW directory tree, as described in the README.software file. Users who have a WWW-related software package they would like installed should contact the WWW Manager (wwwmgr).

Last Updated: 15 July 1996

Xpdf
Version 0.3 ALPHA, 0.5 ALPHA

"Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called Acrobat files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under UNIX and the X Window System." The local installation of Xpdf is in /WWW/bin/xpdf, with a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin/. The latest sources are available in /WWW/xpdf/0.5/.

To use Xpdf as a "helper application" with your Web browser, you need to add the following lines to your mailcap and mime.types files:

$HOME/.mailcap

application/pdf; xpdf %s >/dev/null 2>&1

$HOME/.mime.types

application/pdf pdf

Netscape Communication Corp.'s Netscape Navigator
Version 1.12 -- Improves encryption for Netscape's SSL Security
Version 2.02 (/WWW/bin/netscape20)
Version 3.0 beta 5a (/WWW/bin/netscape30)

If you had been running Netscape Version 1.0N, you need to migrate your preferences and history files for use with Versions 1.1N or 1.12. Cut and paste the following commands into a terminal window:

cd sed 's/^MCOM-X-/Netscape-/' .MCOM-preferences > .netscape-preferences ln -s .MCOM-global-history .netscape-history

You cannot share your Netscape configuration files between versions 1.x and 2.0 or later. Netscape has seen fit to change the format of their history and bookmarks files, and the structure of the cache directory. If you want to test the 2.0 or 3.0 releases without destroying your existing files, you should respond [Cancel] to the opening dialogue box. This will cause Netscape 2.0(3.0) to copy your configuration files to the new names, without deleting the old names.

NSCA Mosaic
Version 2.6
Version 2.7b4 (Mosaic)

The public release version is 2.6; the beta version 2.7 supports new authentication features (including Kerberos on some platforms), and is beginning to have some minimal support for HTML 3 features such as tables.

Enhanced Mosaic from Tübingen University

"The Computing Center (ZDV) of the University of Tübingen is proud to present Mosaic (TueV) 2.4.2, an extended multilingual update of the original NCSA Mosaic 2.4 for X-Windows."

The English-language binary for AIX 3.2 is installed as /usr/local/bin/Mosaic-TueV. A README file describing the modifications from NCSA Mosaic 2.4 is available in /usr/local/Mosaic/Mosaic-2.4.2/README-2.4.2.

Please test this version of Mosaic, and send any comments to wwwmgr@hep.caltech.edu.

htmlchek
Version 4.1

Supports full HTML 2.0 syntax checking, along with a number of useful style-checking features. The software is installed as /WWW/bin/htmlchek, and local documenation is available.

latex2html
Version 0.6.4, Version 96.1

A Perl script and associated utilities for conversion of LaTeX documents to HTML trees. It is installed in /usr/local/bin. Notes about the local installation are also available.

weblint
Version 1.011

An HTML Validator and style checker. Supports HTML 2 and 3, and looks for stylistic problems like "click here," images without ALT text, badly ordered headings (H1 -- H3 -- H2), and so on.

webxref
Version 0.1.4

A URL validator. Searches a specified HTML file for external and internal hyperlinks, and ensures that they exist. The search is recursive, so that an entire tree structure can be validated with a single command. A single level (non-recursive) access of off-site (HTTP://....) hyperlinks is also done by default, but may be disabled with the "-nohttp" option. The comments in the source file describe the behaviour of the program and the command line options.

Convert your Hotlist to HTML

A utility for converting Mosaic hotlists to HTML is available. You can copy the executable (a self-loading awk filter) from ~kelsey/bin/hl2html.