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--<Guru>--
D=10-Nov-1992
A=Ross Williams
S=Overview of FunnelWeb archive.
K=funnelweb archive messages status release notes update readme
--<Guru>--
OVERVIEW OF FUNNELWEB ARCHIVE
=============================
FunnelWeb is a simple, portable literate preprocessor. It was released
in June 1992. The June 1992 release is the only release of FunnelWeb
to date (mid November 1992). This archive contains files that provide
additional information that may be of assistance to FunnelWeb users.

   fw_README.mes       - This message.
   fw_abandon.mes      - About why FunnelWeb was temporarily abandoned.
   fw_advert.mes       - The original FunnelWeb internet advertisment.
   fw_make.mes         - A FunnelWeb make file.
   fw_mlist.mes        - FunnelWeb mailing list.
   fw_mlist_rules.mes  - All about the FunnelWeb mailing list.
   fw_p_apollo.mes     - Notes on porting to Apollo.
   fw_p_hp.mes         - Notes on porting to HP.
   fw_p_mpw.mes        - Notes on porting to MPW.
   fw_p_next.mes       - Notes on porting to NeXT.
   fw_p_next_patch.mes - NeXT machine patches.
   fw_p_pc.exe         - An MSDOS/386 FunnelWeb executable.
   fw_p_pc.mes         - Notes on porting to MSDOS.
   fw_refs.mes         - Literate programming references.
   fw_sugg.mes         - Current list of suggestions for improving FunnelWeb.
   fw_tabs.mes         - A note about FunnelWeb and tab characters.
   fw_testim.mes       - FunnelWeb customer testimonials!

The original release kit of FunnelWeb is in

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!))

That's all the information released on FunnelWeb so far.

Currently, I have stopped working on FunnelWeb in favour of other
projects. However, I have decided to spend a small amount of my time
acting in a coordinating role to make FunnelWeb more widely known and
to organize its users so that they can assist each other.

The most unfortunate aspect of my lack of time for FunnelWeb at the
moment is that I do not have the time even to update the source code
so that it will compile properly on the variety of machines that
FunnelWeb users have ported it to. Instead, I have simply organized
and archived the porting information provided by FunnelWeb users.
Getting a new version out is at least one week's work and I just don't
have a week at the moment. The worst case is FunnelWeb for the PC
which doesn't quite compile (I took some shortcuts at release time).
As this is such an important platform, I have included a PC .exe file
in the archive. Note: There have been few reported problems with
getting FunnelWeb to compile on the other three supported platforms:
Suns, Macs, and Vaxen.

The three support activities I intend to pursue are:

   * Advertising FunnelWeb.
   * Running the FunnelWeb mailing list.
   * Maintainance of a FunnelWeb archive.

The archive consists of a set of text files (what you are reading is
one of the messages). Each message is headed with a "Guru" header
record. "Guru" is my private text file database which I might release
one day. Most of the content of the message files has been drawn from
the email that I have received from FunnelWeb users. In organizing all
this material, I have tended to omit people's names and email
addresses for two reasons:

   * It would take too long to obtain permission from each person
     to quote them publicly. This has been a real headache.

   * I don't want to punish people for emailing me about FunnelWeb
     by listing them publicly as having performed particular ports
     etc, so I have refrained from listing the names and email
     addresses so that they won't be barraged by email.

Thus, most of the information is paraphrased from the email. To avoid
these problems in the future, I am making the rule that anything sent
to the mailing list has public status.

I hope that this archive will assist FunnelWeb users. If you have
anything that you think might benefit other FunnelWeb users, email it
to me, and I will place it in the archive.

Ross Williams
ross@spam.adelaide.edu.au
Creator of FunnelWeb.

--<End of document>--