[95] in Software_Announce
Re: VRWeb 1.0 beta 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Sat Dec 16 00:39:48 1995
To: Brad Porter <bwporter@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 1995 23:11:49 EST."
<199512160411.XAA00401@pokie.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:38:58 -0500
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
VRweb version 1.1 has been installed in the outland locker for all 6
common platforms (Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, Irix, Ultrix). VRweb is a
VRML scene viewer that can also interface with your web browser to allow
you to browse VRML worlds on the web.
To simply run the Scene viewer, add outland; vrweb. To use VRweb with
your web browser, you must add a line to the file ~/.mailcap:
For Netscape:
x-world/x-vrml; vrweb -URL %u %s &;
For NCSA Mosaic:
x-world/x-vrml; vrweb -mosaic %s &;
(Note that this assumes that you have previously added outland, so that
vrweb can be found.) For WWWAnchors to work with netscape, vrweb must be
able to find a program called 'netscape', so if you use netscape-beta from
the outland locker you may want to add a symlink from netscape to
netscape-beta in your ~/bin directory. (I am looking into a better way of
handling this.)
The VRweb help pages are installed in /mit/outland/share/lib/vrweb/help.
For the VRweb help menu to work properly, you will need to do the following:
% mkdir ~/.vrweb
% ln -s /mit/outland/share/lib/vrweb/help ~/.vrweb/help
Enjoy!
--Jered
