Installing WorldWideWeb on the NeXT
Installation
To install the WorldWideWeb program
properly you will need to be superuser.
It is possible to use take a private
copy of the program (see below) if
you really have to, but for a system-wide
copy, the steps are as follows. If
you are at CERN, you should use NFS
to remotely mount the files (see
explanation ).
The commands to do this are therefore
(inserting the full path name of
your directory where indicated, and
the version number for vvv):-
uncompress WWWNeXTStepEditor_vvv.tar.Z
tar -xf WWWNeXTStepEditor_vvv.tar
su root
mkdir /LocalApps
ln -s /(fullpathname)/WorldWideWeb.app /LocalApps
Don't do the mkdir step if you already
have a /LocalApps directory
Making a private copyIf you don't have privilege, and
you don't have the ear of someone
who does, it is possible to take
a private copy of the program. It
is better, of course, to get it installed
system-wide, but if desperate, procede
as above but instead link the application
to your own directory, and take a
copy of the system default file as
your own default file. The commands
are therefore:-
uncompress WWWNeXTStepEditor_vvv.tar.Z
tar -xf WWWNeXTStepEditor_vvv.tar
ln -s /(fullpathname)/WorldWideWeb ~/Apps
Personal setupEach person who wants to use it on
the machine, whether it is a system
copy or his private copy, must before
he can use WWW:
- Set his default NewsHost (can this
be done system-wide?) to be the name
of a server running the NNTP protocol.
If he is already using "News" this
will be unnecessary, as WWW will
use News's default. (At CERN only,
at the time of writing, a suitable
news host was cernvax.cern.ch.) The
shell command is
dwrite WorldWideWeb NewsHost (hostname)
You (each user) may later want to
create your own WWW subdirectory
under your home directory. In that
subdirectory you may like to put
:
- A personal hypertext home page. This
is a file default.html which will
be displayed whenever the application
is started. Create it by starting
WWW to load the system default home
page, editing it, then using the
" Save a copy in..HTML.. " item in
the Window menu, and selecting your
private WWW subdirectory.
- A personal blank note. This is a
file blank.html which will be used
as a template whenever you create
a new hypertext file with the " New
file " or " Link to new " commands.
Create it by using the " New file
" item in the "Window" menu and selecting
your personal $(HOME)/WWW/blank.html
as filename.
- A default style sheet .