README file for BWGOR.sh
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version 1.0a
04/02/05
Welcome
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BWGOR stands for Badcat's Web and GOpher Reader.
I made this for the better half (Badcat) as a sort of fetch (or curl or dump)
and translate/read utility or routine.
You can set it up to do most anything as it is basically just using the xmessage
programmable button feature to run commands. Personally enjoying text dumping
web sites made me think it might be nice to be able to click a button and pop
up a quick view of a news page or weather from a gopher or web site. A home
page button was also added. The grabbed page is then translated to text and
then viewed in xmessage, a return button is provided to go back to the main
xmessage window. Pages have links listed numerically and the list is at the
bottom of the page so one can copy and hit return then URL in the main window
and paste the link address in the underlying xterm window. In the example script
you will see AUDIO and IMAGES are also given a button which allows entering a url
for those files to be grabbed and then starts the appropriate viewer. A nice
feature is the edit button which, since this only is a script, allows one to
modify ones buttons and assignments on the fly. Finally there is the exit button
also a nice feature ;)
It could be made to have nothing but links or to start anything ... make it
as you wish.
This is perhaps more just an example of what one can do in xmessage.
Programs in the example
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xterm
xmessage (FreeBSD XFree86) to view in.
vilistextum (
http://bhaak.dyndns.org/vilistetxum/) to translate html > txt.
cURL (
http://curl.haxx.se/ ) to grab web pages.
lynx (
http://lynx.browser.org) to -dump because curl's gopher ability is broke.
when using lynx -dump dont use the vilitextum as its already text.
xv for image viewing.
xmms (
http://www.xmms.org) for audio and video.
ee for editing BWGOR.sh from itself.
To run
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First modify the Bourne Shell script paths and programs to suit your needs.
Name the script as you wish I used bwgor.sh . After you've played with it a bit
you can add it to your path. (i.e. /usr/bin or ~/bin).
Running Blackbox with ROX-filer my Blackbox menu is as follows:
[exec] (BWGOR) {xterm -class xmessage -geometry 50x2-0+0 -e ~chris/bin/bwgor.sh}
The -class gives xterm the colors of xmessage from my .Xdefaults and opens the xterm
upper right and quite thin, just enough to enter a url. As xmessage opens it too
is -geometry -0+0 as you can see in the script so it opens over the thin xterm.
my .Xdefaults looks like this:
xmessage*foreground: rgb:00/04/07
xmessage*background: rgb:ac/b9/c4
xmessage*Text*Scrollbar.foreground: rgb:4e/58/7e
xmessage*Text*Scrollbar.background: rgb:ac/b9/c4
xmessage*BorderWidth: 0
xmessage*Command*ShapeStyle: rectangle
Xmessage*font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-15
Thats about it, just play with what you want in it and set colors to your liking.
About my choices
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xmessage vs gmessage vs pymessage duno yet still playing :)
vilistextum ? beats the heck ouf of my sed script!
(sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba)
vilistextum really formats to text nice.
why not xlhtml? I plan on it for excel & powerpoint to html and then to txt.
cURL vs fetch vs lynx -dump: cURL is nice but cant gopher anymore and neither
can fetch. By the way lynx is awesome Elinks is cool and links2 is near
perfection imho. Use what you like and what will get the job done for you.
xv is real nice for a quick image pop up.
xmms well now thats sweet aint it?
ee as an editor? vi gives me a headache and emacs...my gawds RMS made that!
I am unworthy.
Why not make it a program? It's so nice to be able to edit on the fly.
Seriously I just used what I had and that is exactly what the concept was
use what I used anyhow and just utilize xmessage's buttons to make the long
commands a click away.
Changes
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Moved to X from consol and gave it a name.
