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IBM WebExplorer is a world-wide web browser for OS/2 Warp. This program supplies a graphically rich, interactive interface to the fascinating world of the Internet. Using WebExplorer you can jump from one Internet location to another by simply selecting highlighted text or images in the main window.
This version will only run on OS/2 Warp 3.0, not previous releases of OS/2. Please reboot after installation.
This program should only be installed on OS/2 Warp. Do not attempt to install on OS/2 V2.x. The install checks for OS/2 Warp as a requirement. Do not try to circumvent this check since the WebExplorer V1.03 will not run on OS/2 2.x and will cause severe problems during installation with the OS/2 2.x version of the workplace shell.
Refer to the Distribution Notice for instructions on obtaining a version of WebExplorer that will run on OS/2 V2.x.
This program requires one of the following
If you are using the Internet Connection, you MUST install either the "TCP/IP Base Update" package available via the "Retrieve Software Updates" icon or the fix for APAR PN71501 which is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.ibm.net as pub/pn71501/pn71501.zip.
If you are using TCP/IP 2.0, you MUST upgrade to the latest Corrective Service Diskette (CSD) for TCP/IP 2.0. The latest CSD is level UN64092 dated 8/30/94. If you are not certain of the CSD level installed for TCP/IP, type "syslevel" at the OS/2 command prompt. CSD UN64092 is available via anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com as files tcp20c1.exe, tcp20c2.exe, tcp20c3.exe and tcp20c4.exe in the pub/tcpip/os2 directory. After installing the CSD you MUST install the fix for APAR PN71501 which is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.ibm.net as pub/pn71501/pn71501.zip.
/bin/explore.exe
/bin/explore.ico
/bin/viewstrt.exe
/dll/WEBEXURL.DLL
/help/EXPLORE.HLP
/help/WEBEXURL.HLP
/help/WEBNG.HTM
/help/READ.ME
/help/README.HTM
In addition to HTML V2.0, WebExplorer supports some tag extensions to enhance the format and visual appeal of your HTML documents. The tags allow you to:
The following table lists the tag extensions supported and describes their use. The table itself was defined using the table tag extensions.
| Tag | Attribute | Description |
|---|---|---|
| <CENTER> | ||
| <HR> | SIZE= | Specifies the vertical thickness of a horizontal rule (in pixels) |
| WIDTH= | Specifies the page width of a rule. Define an exact number of pixels or a percentage of the page width (for example, 25%, 50%, and so on). | |
| ALIGN= | Aligns a rule to the left, right, or center | |
| <TABLE> | Marks the start of a table. </TABLE> is the closing tag | |
| BORDER= | Generates a table border and divides columns and rows with horizontal and vertical rules. Specify the vertical thickness of the border in pixels. | |
| <CAPTION> | Creates a table caption outside of the table. </CAPTION> is the closing tag. | |
| <TH> | Defines a cell in the table heading | |
| COLSPAN= | Specifies the number of columns a cell spans | |
| ROWSPAN= | Specifies the number of rows a cell spans | |
| ALIGN= | Aligns the text in a cell (right, center, or left) | |
| NOWRAP | Keeps all cell text on one line. Use <BR> tags within the text to force link breaks | |
| <TR> | Marks the start of a table row (no closing tag) | |
| <TD> | Marks the start of a table cell (table data). </TD> is the closing tag. | |
| COLSPAN= | Specifies the number of columns a cell spans | |
| ROWSPAN= | Specifies the number of rows a cell spans | |
| ALIGN= | Aligns the text in a cell (right, center, or left) | |
| NOWRAP | Keeps all cell text on one line | |
| <BODY> | BGCOLOR= | Specifies the background color of the document, using a six-digit hexadecimal string. The string represents a mixture of red, green, and blue colors. (The first pair of digits represents red, the second pair green, and the third pair blue). A string in the form "#000000" generates a black background. You can view different color mixtures using the Color Palette editor in OS/2 Warp. This tag overrides the default settings in WebExplorer. |
| BACKGROUND= | Points to a .gif image to use for the document background | |
| TEXT= | Specifies the color of the document text, using a six-digit hexadecimal string. For example, the string "#CACA03" generates yellow text. This tag overrides the default settings in WebExplorer. | |
| LINK= | Specifies the color of links in the document, using a six-digit hexadecimal string. For example, the string "#FF0000" displays red document links. This tag overrides the default settings in WebExplorer. | |
| VLINK= | Specifies the color of visited links in the document, using a six-digit hexadecimal string. This tag overrides the default settings in WebExplorer. |
WebExplorer now provides a full-function Newsgroup Manager. This feature allows you to list the USENET newsgroups provided by your news server and to subscribe to your favorite groups. The Newsgroup Manager monitors your subscriptions and reports the number of unread articles since your last session or update. You can add or delete subscriptions at any time.
Before using the Newsgroup Manager, you need to specify the news server that Newsgroup Manager will use. Select Server from the Configure pull-down menu and enter the host name or IP address of the default news server you want to use.
To start the Newsgroup Manager, either:
After selecting a newsgroup from the subscription list, you can load and browse a portion of the articles available or see all articles at once. The Next Thread and Previous Thread navigation options allow you to move forward and backward through the list of posted articles. The Up Thread and Down Thread options allow you to follow a specific conversation thread. Recognized protocols within the text are displayed as links, so you can go directly to them. You also can send a response to a to a specific article in a newsgroup, as well as post your own articles. To post to a newsgroup, you must specify your Email address on the Configure Servers window.
To go directly to a newsgroup from the WebExplorer main window, enter the news: protocol followed by the newsgroup URL.
Note: The Newsgroup Manager can share files with the IBM NewsReader/2 program, which allows each program to access your current newsgroup subscription list.
A Send Mail option has been added to the Navigate pull-down menu. This option displays the same window as the mailto: protocol.
If you disable your proxy server configuration after caching one or more documents obtained from the server, you will encounter a problem when you try to access the cached documents. To remedy the problem, exit WebExplorer after you disable the proxy server configuration, and then restart the program.
You can use the drag and drop function to capture images and HTML from an open document and place them on your desktop where you can save, maintain, and reuse them.
You can also maintain frequently used documents on your desktop by using the URL drag and drop feature. This allows you to drop the URL for a document on a file folder or any other place on your OS/2 Warp desktop to create a URL Workplace Shell Object.
Once you have created a URL Workplace Shell object you can:
Note: Many applications, such as editors, do not allow copy-based drag operations and you will not be able to directly drop HTML, images, or URLs onto them. Instead, drag and drop them to the desktop first and then drag them to the application.
Text and graphics can now display as soon as they are received from the network. Using the Configure Loading option from the Configure pull-down menu, you can:
The fast load method displays the text and puts place holders for the images which take longer to load. If the graphics were created with height and width tags, WebExplorer will automatically display the correct amount of space for them. Otherwise, it will reformat the display to fit the graphics as they come in.
Streaming graphics is independent of the fast load method. It controls how images are drawn once they begin to display. If you select streaming graphics, you can also whether you want GIF interlaced images to be drawn as precise or smeared.
Note: The TIFF graphical format is no longer supported.
The -p option allows you to enable color palette management. When you start WebExplorer with this option, it uses its own 'best' set of colors rather than the system default palette or the last palette loaded by another application.
There are two ways you can send mail to other users on the internet:
Either of these will display a mailto window in which you can type your correspondence.
Note: You must have your Email address specified. To do this, select Servers, from the Configure pull-down menu to get the Configure Servers window.
News reader articles are displayed as a hierarchical tree of conversations. For example, one person posts an article, then someone replies, then someone replies to them, and so on. This function is available to WebExplorer only when the news server supports it.
You can post a response to a news group by clicking on an entry in a news group list and selecting Post to newsgroup(s). This will display a newspost window in which you can type your correspondence.
Note: You must have your Email address and News Server specified. Select Servers from the Configure pull-down menu to get Configure Servers window.
If you need to disable your proxy or socks server configuration to communicate to a specific server, you can use check boxes so that you do not have to re-type the name of the proxy or socks server to reenable it.
If you are currently using Proxy or Socks, you will need to check the enable check box in the Configure/Servers menu item.
The WebExplorer supports all markup in the HTML/2.0 standard, including forms, ISO-Latin-1 fonts, inline graphics, glossaries, and more. Since some documents on the Internet are not compliant with the proposed standard, the WebExplorer attempts to clean up the document by introducing markup where appropriate. While we claim to handle all correct markup, we may not handle incorrect markup in the same way that other browsers do. We also support HTTP/1.0 which includes GET and POST access methods, image maps, and MIME headers. IBM is committed to supporting these public standards as they evolve.
Advanced image processing techniques are used to accurately display images and text on both color and monochrome printers. The entire document is also reformatted on the fly to exactly fit the margins of the printer, producing high-quality output for archival or hardcopy distribution of Web documents.
The size, position, colors, fonts, quick list selections, network servers, and home page are all remembered between uses of the WebExplorer in the EXPLORE.INI file. By using the -i flag when starting the WebExplorer, users can specify a particular .INI file to use. This allows a network administrator to make one copy of the executable file accessible by users, while each user can maintain individual .INI files on their local disk.
Question: Every time I start WebExplorer I get following message: "The nameserver gave us garbage. 'File: EXPLORE.EXE' has been abandoned. WebExplorer still works after this message.
Answer: This happens when you install a WebExplorer package from ftp.ibm.net on top of a version installed via Retrieve Software Updates. The Retrieve Software Updates version can assume that it is installing on top of the WARP IAK and thus fills in the settings for the WebExplorer program objects as follows:
Path and file name: linkup.exe
Parameters: explore.exe
Linkup is the program that checks for a current SLIP or PPP connection before starting the program given as a parameter. Since TCP/IP 2.0 customers don't have linkup.exe and the WebExplorer package is meant to install on top of TCP/IP 2.0, its install fills out the program icon as follows:
Path and file name: explore.exe
It does not clear out the parameters entry since the user may have added some. But this causes the problem you see since if you install in the order mentioned above you get:
Path and file name: explore.exe
Parameters: explore.exe
In this case you get the error you're seeing. Thus to avoid this problem just update the settings to use linkup.exe or remove explore.exe as a parameter.
The WWW Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document resides on the World Wide Web and is updated frequently.
IBM* WebExplorer for OS/2 Warp
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(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 1995. All Rights Reserved.
*IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
This product includes computer software created and made available by CERN. This acknowledgement shall be mentioned in full in any product which includes the CERN computer software included herein or parts thereof.
(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 1995. All rights reserved.
US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
WebExplorer is NOT to be redistributed. WebExplorer is copyright material and shall only be distributed from IBM designated sites. You should frequently check the distribution sites listed below for updated versions of this software.
Listed below are the IBM designated distribution sites:
This ftp site contains versions of WebExplorer that run on OS/2 2.x. Version 1.01 (web101.zip) is the last production version and V950331 is the last beta version that will run on OS/2 2.x.
Beta versions have version labels according to the date the code was built. Thus, version 950525 was built on May 25, 1995. New BETA versions are announced by a post to the comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip newsgroup.
You are granted the right to use the this version of the WebExplorer software. You may not disassemble, decompose, reverse engineer, or alter this file or any of the other files in the package. This includes, but is not limited to modifying any icons, menus, or displays associated with the software.
This version of the WebExplorer software is provided FOR EVALUATION ONLY and cannot be sold. This restriction does not apply to connect time charges, or flat rate connection/download fees for electronic bulletin board services or Internet dial-in services. This software can not be bundled with any commercial package without express written permission from International Business Machines Corporation.
IBM accepts no responsibility for damages resulting from the use of this software and makes no warranty or representation, either express or implied, including but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, its user, assume all risks when using it.
There is no phone support for Beta versions of WebExplorer. You are encouraged to make use of the Internet Newsgroups for problem determination, frequently asked questions, and bug reports. IBM makes no guarantee to fix any software defects reported in these forums. We ask you to read and post to the comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip news group. Please include the Beta version number with your note. You can get the version number by selecting Product Information from the help menu.
The IBM WebExplorer for OS/2 Warp is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
The IBM Internet Connection for OS/2 incorporates compression code by the Info-ZIP group. There are no extra charges or costs due to the use of this code, and the original compression sources are freely available from CompuServe in the OS2USER forum and by anonymous FTP from the Internet site ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip.