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- COMP.INFOSYSTEMS.WWW FAQ
-
- Contents
-
- * 1: Recent changes to the FAQ
- * 2: Information about this document
- * 3: Elementary Questions
- + 3.1: What are WWW, hypertext and hypermedia?
- + 3.2: What is a URL?
- + 3.3: How can I access the web?
- o 3.3.1: Browsers accessible by telnet
- o 3.3.2: Obtaining browsers
- + 3.4: How can I provide information to the web?
- o 3.4.1: Obtaining Servers
- o 3.4.2: Producing HTML documents
- o 3.4.3: How do I publicize my work?
- + 3.5: How does WWW compare to gopher and WAIS?
- + 3.6: What is on the web?
- + 3.7: I want to know more.
- * 4: Advanced Questions
- + 4.1: How do I set up a clickable image map?
- + 4.2: How do I make a "link" that doesn't load a new page?
- + 4.3: Where can I learn how to create fill-out forms?
- + 4.4: How can I save an inline image to disk?
- + 4.5: How can I get sound from the PC speaker with WinMosaic?
- + 4.6: How do I comment out part of an HTML document?
- * 5: Credits
-
- 1: RECENT CHANGES TO THE FAQ
-
- * April 8th, 1994: Nathan Torkington's primers added
- * April 8th, 1994: HTML Assistant for Windows added
- * April 8th, 1994: More on why Hypertext is a Good Thing
- * April 8th, 1994: Numerous FTP locations and URLs corrected
- * April 8th, 1994: Added vanilla MSDOS browsers section
- * April 8th, 1994: WinMosaic sound section added
- * April 8th, 1994: Information on ViolaWWW added
- * April 8th, 1994: Section on comments in HTML added
- * April 8th, 1994: Section on how to announce offerings added
- * April 8th, 1994: Information on MacHTTP and Plexus servers added
-
- 2: INFORMATION ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
-
- This is an introduction to the World Wide Web project, describing the
- concepts, software and access methods. It is aimed at people who know
- a little about navigating the Internet, but want to know more about
- WWW specifically. If you don't think you are up to this level, try an
- introductory Internet book such as Ed Krol's "The Whole Internet" or
- "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet". The latter is available
- electronically by anonymous FTP from ftp.eff.org in the directory
- pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy.
-
- This informational document is posted to news.answers,
- comp.infosystems.www, comp.infosystems.gopher, comp.infosystems.wais
- and alt.hypertext on the 1st and 15th of every month (please allow a
- day or two for it to propagate to your site). The latest version is
- always available on the web as
- <http://siva.cshl.org/~boutell/www_faq.html>. (see the section titled
- "What is a URL?" to understand what this means.)
-
- The most recently posted version of this document is kept on the
- news.answers archive on rtfm.mit.edu in
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq. The URL for this is
- _<file://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq>_. For
- information on FTP, send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with
- "_send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources_" in the body, instead of
- asking me.
-
- Thomas Boutell maintains this document. Feedback about it is to be
- sent via e-mail to boutell@netcom.com.
-
- In all cases, regard this document as out of date. Definitive
- information should be on the web, and static versions such as this
- should be considered unreliable at best. Please excuse any formatting
- inconsistencies in the posted version of this document, as it is
- automatically generated from the on-line version.
-
- 3: ELEMENTARY QUESTIONS
-
- 3.1: What are WWW, hypertext and hypermedia?
-
- WWW stands for "World Wide Web". The WWW project, started by CERN (the
- European Laboratory for Particle Physics), seeks to build a
- distributed hypermedia system.
-
-
-
- The advantage of hypertext is that in a hypertext document, if you
- want more information about a particular subject mentioned, you can
- usually "just click on it" to read further detail. In fact, documents
- can be and often are linked to other documents by completely different
- authors -- much like footnoting, but you can get the referenced
- document instantly!
-
- To access the web, you run a browser program. The browser reads
- documents, and can fetch documents from other sources. Information
- providers set up hypermedia servers which browsers can get documents
- from.
-
- The browsers can, in addition, access files by FTP, NNTP (the Internet
- news protocol), gopher and an ever-increasing range of other methods.
- On top of these, if the server has search capabilities, the browsers
- will permit searches of documents and databases.
-
- The documents that the browsers display are hypertext documents.
- Hypertext is text with pointers to other text. The browsers let you
- deal with the pointers in a transparent way -- select the pointer, and
- you are presented with the text that is pointed to.
-
- Hypermedia is a superset of hypertext -- it is any medium with
- pointers to other media. This means that browsers might not display a
- text file, but might display images or sound or animations.
-
- 3.2: What is a URL?
-
- URL stands for "Uniform Resource Locator". It is a draft standard for
- specifying an object on the Internet, such as a file or newsgroup.
-
- URLs look like this:
- * file://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/graphics/gifkit.zip
- * file://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors
- * http://info.cern.ch:80/default.html
- * news:alt.hypertext
- * telnet://dra.com
-
-
-
- The first part of the URL, before the colon, specifies the access
- method. The part of the URL after the colon is interpreted specific to
- the access method. In general, two slashes after the colon indicate a
- machine name (machine:port is also valid).
-
- In this document, you will often see URLs surrounded by angle
- brackets. This is done because some newsreaders (I am told) can
- recognize them and treat them as "buttons". Do not enter the angle
- brackets when entering a URL by hand to your web browser.
-
- When you are told to "check out this URL", what to do next depends on
- your browser; please check the help for your particular browser. For
- the line-mode browser at CERN, which you will quite possibly use first
- via telnet, the command to try a URL is "GO URL" (substitute the
- actual URL of course). In Lynx you just select the "GO" link on the
- first page you see; in graphical browsers, there's usually an "Open
- URL" option in the menus.
-
- 3.3: How can I access the web?
-
- You have two options -- either use a browser that can be telnetted to,
- or use a browser on your machine.
-
- 3.3.1: BROWSERS ACCESSIBLE BY TELNET
-
- An up-to-date list of these is available on the Web as
- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/Bootstrap.html and should be
- regarded as an authoritative list.
-
- info.cern.ch
- No password is required. This is in Switzerland, so continental
- US users might be better off using a closer browser.
-
- ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
- A full screen browser "Lynx" which requires a vt100 terminal.
- Log in as www.
-
- www.njit.edu
- (or telnet 128.235.163.2) Log in as www. A full-screen browser
- in New Jersey Institute of Technology. USA.
-
- vms.huji.ac.il
- (IP address 128.139.4.3). A dual-language Hebrew/English
- database, with links to the rest of the world. The line mode
- browser, plus extra features. Log in as www. Hebrew University
- of Jerusalem, Israel.
-
- sun.uakom.cs
- Slovakia. Has a slow link, only use from nearby.
-
- info.funet.fi
- (or telnet 128.214.6.102). Log in as info. Not working.
-
- fserv.kfki.hu
- Hungary. Has slow link, use from nearby. Login is as www.
-
- 3.3.2: OBTAINING BROWSERS
-
- The preferred method of access of the Web is to run a browser
- yourself. Browsers are available for many platforms, both in source
- and executable forms. Here is a list generated from the authoritative
- list, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html.
-
- Terminal based browsers
-
- Line Mode Browser
- This program gives W3 readership to anyone with a dumb
- terminal. A general purpose information retrieval tool.
- Available by anonymous ftp from info.cern.ch in the directory
- /pub/www/src.
-
- "Lynx" full screen browser
- This is a hypertext browser for vt100s using full screen, arrow
- keys, highlighting, etc. Available by anonymous FTP from
- ftp2.cc.ukans.edu.
-
- Tom Fine's perlWWW
- A tty-based browser written in perl. Available by anonymous FTP
- from archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in the directory pub/w3browser
- as the file w3browser-0.1.shar.
-
- For VMS
- Dudu Rashty's full screen client based on VMS's SMG screen
- management routines. Available by anonymous FTP from
- vms.huji.ac.il in the directory www/www_client.
-
- Emacs w3-mode
- W3 browse mode for emacs. Uses multiple fonts when used with
- Lemacs or Epoch. See the documentation. Available by anonymous
- FTP from moose.cs.indiana.edu in the directory pub/elisp/w3 as
- the files w3.tar.Z and extras.tar.Z.
-
- PC Running Windows
-
- NOTE: both of these browsers require that you have SLIP, PPP or other
- TCP/IP networking on your PC. SLIP or PPP can be accomplished
- over phone lines, but only with the active cooperation of your
- network provider or educational institution. If you only have
- normal dialup shell access, your best option at this time is to
- run Lynx on the system you call.
-
- Cello Browser from Cornell LII. Available by anonymous FTP from
- fatty.law.cornell.edu in the directory /pub/LII/cello.
-
- Mosaic for Windows
- From NCSA. Available by anonymous FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
- the directory PC/Mosaic.
-
- PC Running DOS
-
- There are NO MSDOS-based browsers at this time. See the section above
- for Windows browsers. An MSDOS-based version of Lynx (with a built-in
- image viewer, although images can't appear inline) is on its way; when
- it is available, an announcement will appear in comp.infosystems.www.
- There is no need to post looking for one.
-
- Macintosh
-
- NOTE: all of these browsers require that you have SLIP, PPP or other
- TCP/IP networking on your PC. SLIP and PPP can be accomplished
- over phone lines, but only with the active cooperation of your
- network provider or educational institution. If you only have
- normal dialup shell access, your best option at this time is to
- run Lynx on the system you call.
-
- Mosaic for Macintosh
- From NCSA. Full featured. Available by anonymous FTP from
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the directory Mac/Mosaic.
-
- Samba From CERN. Basic. Available by anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch
- in the directory /ftp/pub/www/bin as the file mac.
-
- VMS Systems Running Xwindows
-
- NCSA Mosaic for VMS Browser using X11/DecWindows/Motif. Multimedia
- magic. Full http 1.0 support including PUT-method forms, image maps,
- etc. Recommended if you can run it. Available by anonymous FTP from
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the directory Mosaic.
-
- Unix Systems Running Xwindows
-
- NCSA Mosaic for X
- Browser using X11/Motif. Multimedia magic. Full http 1.0
- support including PUT-method forms, image maps, etc.
- Recommended if you can run it. Available by anonymous FTP from
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the directory Mosaic.
-
- tkWWW Browser/Editor for X11
- Browser/Editor for X11. (Beta test version.) Available for
- anonymous ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu in the directory contrib
- as tkWWW-0.10.tar.Z. (Note: this document may not be up to
- date, so you may prefer to ftp to this site by hand and look
- for an even newer version rather than using the link above.)
-
- MidasWWW Browser
- From Tony Johnson. (Beta, works well.)
-
- Viola for X (Beta)
- Two versions for X: one using Motif, one using Xlib (no Motif).
- Handles HTML+ forms and tables. Has extensions for multiple
- columning, collapsible/expandable list, client-side document
- include. Available by anonymous FTP from ora.com in
- /pub/www/viola. More information available at the URL
- <http://xcf.berkeley.edu/ht/projects/viola/README>.
-
- Chimera
- Browser using Athena (doesn't require Motif). Supports forms,
- inline images, etc.; closest to Mosaic in feel of the non-Motif
- X11 browsers. Available for anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.unlv.edu
- in the directory /pub/chimera.
-
- NeXTStep
-
- Browser-Editor on the NeXT
- A browser/editor for NeXTStep. Allows wysiwyg hypertext
- editing. Requires NeXTStep 3.0. Available for anonymous FTP
- from info.cern.ch in the directory /pub/www/src.
-
- Batch Mode
-
- Batch mode browser
- A batch-mode "browser", url_get, which is available through the
- URL <http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/test/zippy/url_get.html>. (I
- am not aware of an anonymous FTP site for the same package at
- present.) This package is intended for use in cron jobs and
- other settings in which fetching a page in a command-line
- fashion is useful.
-
- Unreleased or Unsupported
-
- Browser on CERNVM
- A full-screen browser for VM. Nonexistent. Use the line mode
- www. Might arrive suddenly one day.
-
- Dave Ragget's Browser
- Unreleased. For X11, (later PC?)
-
- Erwise
- X-windows early browser. Unsupported, now of historical
- interest only.
-
- NJIT's Browser
- Assumes a character-grid terminal with cursor addressing, and
- provides a full-screen interface to the web.
-
- 3.4: How can I provide information to the web?
-
- Information providers run programs that the browsers can obtain
- hypertext from. These programs can either be WWW servers that
- understand the HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTP (best if you are
- creating your information database from scratch), "gateway" programs
- that convert an existing information format to hypertext, or a
- non-HTTP server that WWW browsers can access -- anonymous FTP or
- gopher, for example.
-
- To learn more about World Wide Web servers, you can consult a www
- server primer by Nathan Torkington, available at the URL
- <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Nathan.Torkington/ideas/www-servers.html>.
-
- If you only want to provide information to local users, placing your
- information in local files is also an option. This means, however,
- that there can be no off-machine access.
-
- 3.4.1: OBTAINING SERVERS
-
- CERN's server is available for anonymous FTP from info.cern.ch and
- many other places. Use archie to search for "www" or "WWW" to find
- copies close to you.
-
- NCSA has also released a server, available for FTP from
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
-
-
-
- There is also a server written in the Perl scripting language, called
- Plexus, for which documentation is available at the URL
- <http://bsdi.com/server/doc/plexus.html>.
-
- There is a server for the Macintosh, MacHTTP, available at the URL
- <http://www.uth.tmc.edu/mac_info/machttp_info.html>.
-
- There are also servers for Windows and Windows NT, but I don't have
- the details; can anyone provide them?
-
- See http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/Overview.html for more
- information on writing servers and gateways in general.
-
- 3.4.2: PRODUCING HTML DOCUMENTS
-
- There are several ways to produce HTML. One is to simply write it by
- hand; try the "source" button of of your browser to look at the HTML
- for an interesting page. The odds are that it'll be a great deal
- simpler than you would expect. If you're used to marking up text in
- any way (even red-pencilling it), HTML should be rather intuitive. A
- beginner's guide to HTML is available at the URL
- <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html>.
-
- There is also an HTML primer by Nathan Torkington at the URL
- <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Nathan.Torkington/ideas/www-html.html>.
-
- Of course, most folks would still prefer to use a friendlier,
- graphical editor. One option is to use an SGML editor with the HTML
- DTD . Another, for EMACS fans, is to use EMACS and html-mode.el .
-
- For Microsoft Windows Windows users, there is an editor called HTML
- Assistant with features to assist in the creation of HTML documents.
- It can be had by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.dal.ca in the directory
- /htmlasst/. Read the README.1ST file in this directory for information
- on which files to download.
-
- In addition, there are two collections of filters for converting your
- existing documents (in TeX and other non-HTML formats) into HTML
- automatically:
-
- Rich Brandwein and Mike Sendall's List at CERN. The URL is
- <http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Filters.html>.
-
- NCSA's List of Filters and Editors, for which the URL is
- <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/faq-software.html#e
- ditors>, which also mentions two editors for MS Windows.
-
- Finally, TkWWW (listed above under XWindows browsers) supports HTML
- editing.
-
- 3.4.3: HOW DO I PUBLICIZE MY WORK?
-
- There are several things you can do to publicize your new HTML server
- or other offering:
- * Submit it to the NCSA What's New Page at the URL
- <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html>
- (see the page for details on how to submit your listing!).
- * Post it to the newsgroup comp.infosystems.announce. Please read
- the group first to get a feel for the contents. You can also
- crosspost to comp.infosystems.www.
- * Submit it to the maintainers of various catalogs, such as the WWW
- Virtual Library at the URL
- <http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
- >.
-
- 3.5: How does WWW compare to gopher and WAIS?
-
- While all three of these information presentation systems are
- client-server based, they differ in terms of their model of data. In
- gopher, data is either a menu, a document, an index or a telnet
- connection. In WAIS, everything is an index and everything that is
- returned from the index is a document. In WWW, everything is a
- (possibly) hypertext document which may be searchable.
-
- In practice, this means that WWW can represent the gopher (a menu is a
- list of links, a gopher document is a hypertext document without
- links, searches are the same, telnet sessions are the same) and WAIS
- (a WAIS index is a searchable page, returning a document with no
- links) data models as well as providing extra functionality.
-
- The principal difference between the three systems, it turns out, is
- deployment. WWW does not have as large a user base as gopher, mainly
- because of the small number of WWW browsers that are out. This is
- changing as WWW reaches critical mass (usage of the server at CERN
- doubles every 4 months -- twice the rate of Internet expansion).
-
- 3.6: What is on the web?
-
- Currently accessible through the web:
- * anything served through gopher
- * anything served through WAIS
- * anything on an FTP site
- * anything on Usenet
- * anything accessible through telnet
- * anything in hytelnet
- * anything in hyper-g
- * anything in techinfo
- * anything in texinfo
- * anything in the form of man pages
- * sundry hypertext documents
-
-
-
- One of the few limitations of the current networked information
- systems is that there is no simple way to find out what has changed,
- what is new, or even what is out there. As a result, a definitive list
- of the web's contents is impossible at this moment. There are,
- however, several resources which provide a great deal of information
- on new and established servers by topic. These are just two:
- * The WWW Virtual Library at the URL
- <http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
- >, a good place to find resources on a particular subject
- * What's New With NCSA Mosaic at the URL
- <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html>
- , which carries announcements of new servers on the web
-
- 3.7: I want to know more
-
-
-
- To find out more, use the web. This FAQ hopefully provides enough
- information for you to locate and install a browser on your system. If
- you have system specific questions regarding FTP, networking and the
- like, please consult newsgroups relevant to your particular hardware
- and operating system!
-
- Later you may return to this FAQ for answers to some of the advanced
- questions covered in the second section. The advanced section contains
- the most-asked technical questions in the group.
-
- Once you're up and running, you may wish to consult the World Wide Web
- Primer by Nathan Torkington. It is available at the URL
- <http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Nathan.Torkington/ideas/www-primer.html>.
-
- 4: ADVANCED QUESTIONS
-
- 4.1: How do I set up a clickable image map?
-
-
-
- There are really two issues here: how to indicate in HTML that you
- want an image to be clickable, and how to configure your server to do
- something with the clicks returned by Mosaic, Chimera, and other
- clients capable of delivering them.
-
- You can read about image maps and the NCSA server at the URL
- <http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/admin/Imagemap.html>.
-
- 4.2: How do I make a "link" that doesn't load a new page?
-
-
-
- Such links are useful when a form is intended to perform some action
- on the server machine without sending new information to the client,
- or when a user has clicked in an undefined area in an image map; these
- are just two possibilities.
-
- Rob McCool of NCSA provided the following wisdom on the subject:
-
-
- Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund (sg04@gte.com) wrote:
- : Ok, here is another bizzare request from me:
-
- : I am currently running scripts which I "DO NOT" want to return
- : any visible result. That is, not text/plain, not text/HTML, not
- : image/gif. The entire results are the side effects of the
- : script and nothing should be returned to the viewer.
-
- : It would be nice to have an internally supported null viewer
- : so that I could do this, more "cleanly" (ok, ok, I hear your groans).
-
-
-
- HTTP now supports a response code of 204, which is no operation. Some
- browsers such as Mosaic/X 2.* support it. To use it, make your script
- a nph script and output an HTTP/1.0 204 header. Something like:
-
- HTTP/1.0 204 No response Server: Myscript/NCSA httpd 1.1
-
- (You can learn more about nph scripts from the NCSA server
- documentation at the URL <http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs>.)
- Essentially they are scripts that handle their own HTTP response
- codes.
-
- 4.3: Where can I learn how to create fill-out forms?
-
- You can read about the Common Gateway Interface at the URL
- <http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/cgi/>. In addition to documenting the
- standard interface for which scripts can now be written for both NCSA
- and CERN-derived servers, these pages also cover HTML forms and how to
- handle the results on the server side.
-
- 4.4: How can I save an inline image to disk?
-
-
-
- Here are two ways:
-
- 1. Turn on "load to local disk" in your browser, if it has such an
- option; then reload images. You'll be prompted for filenames instead
- of seeing them on the screen. Be sure to shut it off when you're done
- with it.
-
- 2. Choose "view source" and browse through the HTML source; find the
- URL for the inline image of interest to you; copy and paste it into
- the "Open URL" window. This should load it into your image viewer
- instead, where you can save it and otherwise muck about with it.
-
- 4.5: How can I get sound from the PC speaker with WinMosaic?
-
-
-
- This piece of wisdom donated by Hunter Monroe:
-
- This section explains how to install sound on a PC which already has a
- working version of Mosaic for Microsoft Windows. Be warned in advance
- that the results may be poor.
-
- To get Mosaic to produce sound out of the PC speaker, first, you need
- a driver for the speaker. You can get the Microsoft speaker driver
- from the URL <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/SPEAK.EXE> or
- by doing an Archie search to find it somewhere else. SPEAK.EXE is a
- self-extracting file. Copy the speak.exe file to a new directory, and
- then type "SPEAK" at the DOS prompt. Do not put the file SPEAKER.DRV
- in a separate directory from OEMSETUP.INF.
-
- Now, you need to install the driver. In Windows, from the Program
- Manager choose successively Main/Control Panel/Drivers/Add/Unlisted or
- updated drivers/(enter path of SPEAK.EXE)/PC Speaker. At this point
- some strange sounds come out as the driver is initialized. Change the
- settings to improve the sound quality on the various sounds: tada,
- chimes, etc. Click OK when you are finished and choose the Restart
- windows option.
-
- Having installed the speaker driver, you will now get sounds whenever
- you start Windows, make a mistake, or exit Windows. If you do not want
- this, from the Main/Control Panel/Sounds menu, make sure there is no X
- next to "Enable System Sounds."
-
- Now, you need a sound viewer program that Mosaic can call to display
- sounds. NCSA unfortunately recommend WHAM, which does not work well
- with a PC speaker. Get the program WPLANY instead. You can find a copy
- nearby with an Archie search on the string "wplny"; the current
- version is WPLNY09B.ZIP. You can do an Archie search by filling out a
- form from <http://web.nexor.ac.uk/archie.html>, then choosing
- Options/Load to Disk before clicking on a link to "wplnyxxx.zip"
- (where xxx is the current version).
-
- Move the zip file to a new directory, and use an unzip program like
- pkunzip to unzip it, producing the files WPLANY.EXE and WPLANY.DOC.
- Then edit the MOSAIC.INI file to remove the "REM" before the line
- "TYPE9=audio/basic". Then, you need lines in the section below that
- read something like: audio/basic="c:\wplany\wplany.exe %ls"
- audio/wav="c:\wplany\wplany.exe %ls" where you have filled in the
- correct path for wplany.exe. The MOSAIC.INI file delivered with Mosaic
- may have NOTEPAD.EXE on the audio/basic line, but this will not work.
- Now, restart Mosaic, and you should now be able to produce sounds. To
- check this, with Mosaic choose File/Local File/\WINDOWS\*.WAV and then
- try to play TADA.WAV. Then, you might try the Mosaic Demo document for
- some .AU sounds, but you are lucky if your speaker produces something
- you can understand.
-
- 4.6: How do I comment out part of an HTML document?
-
-
-
- Use the <!-- tag at the beginning of EACH line commented out. Rumor
- has it there is a proper closing tag for use with this tag, but I've
- yet to see two people agree upon it.
-
- 5: CREDITS
-
- * Thomas Boutell _boutell@netcom.com_
- * Nathan Torkington _Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz_
- * Marc Andreessen _marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu_
- * Tony Johnson
-