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 ).

Open a shell window, and become superuser. Make a suitable directory to hold the release. cd to that directory.
Take the .tar file using ftp or whatever and unwrap it using tar .
Make a soft link from your LocalApps directory to the file WorldWideWeb itself .

The commands to do this are therefore (inserting the full path name of your directory where indicated, and the version number for vvv):- tar -xf WWWMeXTStepEditor_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 copy

If 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:- tar -xf WWWMeXTStepEditor_vvv.tar ln -s /(fullpathname)/WorldWideWeb ~/Apps

Personal setup

Each 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 .