Re: netrik was ( lynx-dev latest status on java script support? )

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

Hi, Martin:

Thanks for this pointer. I have it working on my system, and I think I 
have a guess why you don't. The README, as well as the error output you 
included, references wget. Netrik relies on wget to retrieve pages, so it 
must be installed first. It's a gnu program, and ytou can certainly find 
it at the gnu web site, http://www.gnu.org.

The program looks interesting. Regretably, it doesn't support ssl in its 
default state, at least. So, if there is some js support, that's only part 
of the answer.

 On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Has anyone gotten netrik to work?  netrik is a new text
> browser which is free and open-source.  You can read about it at
> 
> http://netrik.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 	It has limited javascript support and will run in a text
> environment like lynx.
> 
> 	Now for the bad news, at least so far.  I have access to
> two different UNIX platforms.   One is Debian Linux and the other
> is FreeBSD.  The readme file with netrik says that it is designed
> to build on gnu linux systems.  One should just type make and it
> will go.
> 
> 	Well, on the FreeBSD system, it complains about 2 lines
> in the makefile not having arguments that they need.
> 
> 	On the linux system, it says:
> 
> cc -g -Wall  -DDEBUG -DREADLINE '-DWGET_CMD="wget -nv -O- %s"'   -c -o 
> main.o main.c
> main.c:16: curses.h: No such file or directory
> main.c:22: readline/history.h: No such file or directory
> main.c:23: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [main.o] Error 1
> 
> 	That error I understand in that I am missing a library
> containing the files that are listed as missing.  The make file
> has an option to build on Solaris which is similar to FreeBSD so
> I tried that but with no luck either.  Make just complained about
> the same two lines needing arguments.
> 
> 	I have a feeling this is about to compile but I have
> either failed to set an environment variable or that I need to go
> get a library somewhere that contains the correct headers.
> 
> 	This project sounds like the folks who are working on it
> are headed in the right direction so I am certainly willing to be
> patient and find out why it isn't compiling right now.
> 
> 	The current version appears to be netrik-0.7.1.tar.gz
> 
> 	I would certainly like to see it run and play with it a
> bit andfind out whether it might read some of our
> javascript-infested web sites we have here.  They are not
> terribly complex or special except that they use javascript to
> set up the links and onclicks to tell the sites what link you
> want.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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