---- D=06-Jun-1992 A=Ross Williams S=Description of June 1992 news posting to advertise FunnelWeb K=funnelweb news posting advertisement announcement ---- JUNE 1992 FUNNELWEB NEWS POSTING ================================ FunnelWeb was first announced in early June 1992. The newsgroups to which a posting was attempted to be made were: aus.general aus.sources comp.archives comp.compression comp.doc comp.misc comp.newprod comp.sources.misc comp.sources.unix comp.text comp.text.tex ua.general I don't know how many groups actually received the message. The message sent is reproduced below. Path: spam!ross From: ross@spam.adelaide.edu.au Newsgroups: ua.general Subject: Announcing FunnelWeb: A literate-programming tool. Message-ID: <1431@spam.ua.oz> Date: 6 Jun 92 07:24:18 GMT Sender: ross@spam.ua.oz Reply-To: ross@spam.adelaide.edu.au Followup-To: comp.doc Distribution: world Lines: 43 ANNOUNCING FUNNELWEB ==================== FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool that emphasises simplicity and reliability. It provides a macro facility, and assists in the production of typeset documentation. FunnelWeb runs on most popular machines (Sun, VAX, Mac, PC) and its highly portable source code in C is freely available under a GNU license. Features: + Provides a simple macro preprocessor facility. + Assists in the generation of typeset documentation. + Runs on Sun, VMS VAX, Macintosh, and PC. + Portable C source code distributed under GNU licence. + Comprehensive user's manual (115 pages). + Input-programming-language independent. + Allows complete control over the output text. + Regression test suite with over 200 tests. - Requires TeX to produce typeset documentation. - Typesets program code using TT font only. How to Obtain FunnelWeb ----------------------- FunnelWeb can be obtained by anonymous FTP from: Machine : sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au [IP=129.127.40.3]. File : ~pub/funnelweb/funnelweb.tar.Z (=directory tree in ~pub/funnelweb/..... (less the tar file!)) Last minute notes: * When I created the .tar file, all the files were on rx access only. This means that when you untar it, you will have to do something like chmod -R u+rwx ~user/fwdir otherwise LaTeX, CC, and FunnelWeb won't be able to create temporary files. * I haven't supplied a makefile. Just compile everything in sight! The following commands will compile FunnelWeb on a Sun. cc -c -O *.c cc -o fw *.o ---- ----