[295] in World Wide Web
Re: Possibly of interest to readers of the c.i.www.* newsgroups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 22 21:42:11 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 21:41:47 -0400
To: mkgray@MIT.EDU
Cc: www@MIT.EDU, webmaster@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[292] in World Wide Web"
People who are interested in this might like the original version
better (in particular, the non-perl solution is, of course, much
faster). I've appended the [slightly shortened] netnews post below:
Article: 275 of comp.infosystems.www.users
From: aubrie@chausey.inria.fr (aubrie claude andre)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.users
Subject: Re: Sending HTML posts to your browser from your newsreader
Date: 13 Jun 1994 13:22:14 GMT
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In article <1994Jun8.164959.12608@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov>, chucko@freud.arc.nasa.gov (Chuck Fry) writes:
|> [Sorry about the excessive inclusions/new text ratio... see the
|> punchline below.]
|>
|> In article <boutellCqzyDy.ECK@netcom.com>,
|> Thomas Boutell <boutell@netcom.com> wrote:
|> >Oftentimes, folks post HTML to newsgroups, or at least post messages
|> >with a little bit of HTML (say, a few <A HREF... tags) in it.
|>
|> >You can easily handle this, if you're using rn or one of its
|> >descendants as your newsreader under Unix, by putting the following line
|> >in your .rnmac file (create it if you haven't got one):
|>
|> >W |readwebpost %C\n
|>
|> >And placing the following little script somewhere your path
|> >will be able to find it (important):
|>
|> >#!/bin/sh
|> >echo \<PRE\> > .article.html
|> >cat >> .article.html
|> >echo \</PRE\> >> .article.html
|> >lynx .article.html < /dev/tty
|> >rm .article.html
|>
|> >... Now, whenever you hit "W", the current article will be sent to
|> >Lynx for your browsing pleasure.
|>
|> Yes, but what if you're using Mosaic instead? Is there any way to use
|> it from *rn?
|> -- Chuck Fry, trying to remain Unix-ignorant
|> --
|> Chuck Fry Work: chucko@freud.arc.nasa.gov Play: chucko@rahul.net
|> I speak for myself. NASA and RECOM Technologies speak for themselves.
A script exists which take a file.html as argument and call mosaic after
sending it a SIGNAL.
I use it from Xrn, associated with the command Print, which I rarely use.
Claude Aubrie | Email: aubrie@chausey.inria.fr
INRIA Centre de Rocquencourt | Tel : +33 1 39 63 52 41
BP 105 | Fax : +33 1 39 63 52 28
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex (France) | Telex : 69 70 33 F
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# showhtml Metamail HTML viewer: Mosaic remote-controlling or launch
#
# Jean-Christophe.Touvet@inria.fr
#
$MTMP = "/tmp/Mosaic";
$MEXE = "xmosaic";
$FILE = ".mail.html";
die "$0: incorrect #arguments\n" if $#ARGV;
$HOME = $ENV{HOME} || die "HOME undefined\n";
$file = "$HOME/$FILE";
system ("/bin/cp",$ARGV[0],$file);
if ($pid = &GetMosaicPid) {
$MTMP .= ".$pid";
open (F,">$MTMP") || die "$MTMP: $!\n";
print F "goto\nfile://localhost$file";
close (F);
print "\nLook at your Mosaic window to see $file\n";
kill ('SIGUSR1',$pid);
sleep 1; # WARNING: might depend on your host's load
unlink ($MTMP);
} else {
print "\nMosaic not yet running, spawning it on $file\n";
system ("$MEXE $file &");
}
# Searches for running Mosaic. Doesn't use .mosaicpid because it doesn't work
# if you've opened then closed some other Mosaic window.
sub GetMosaicPid
{
open(PIDFILE, "ps -x |");
while (<PIDFILE>) {
if(/(\d+) .*$MEXE/){
close(PIDFILE);
return ($1);
}
}
close(PIDFILE);
return 0;
}
--
Claude Aubrie | Email: aubrie@chausey.inria.fr
INRIA Centre de Rocquencourt | Tel : +33 1 39 63 52 41
BP 105 | Fax : +33 1 39 63 52 28
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex (France) | Telex : 69 70 33 F
