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Old 01-07-2008
Keep Internet junk at bay with content filters

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT
Each day, I come across someone on the blogosphere complaining about the design of a Web site. Some don't like screaming text, others don't like banners, and still others hate ads. My pet peeves include pop-ups and unwanted JavaScript and cookies. Removing such junk can speed up your Internet connection, since you're no longer wasting bandwidth downloading data you find useless. Here are some tools you can use to filter the content a Web site renders to you.


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W3M(1)							      General Commands Manual							    W3M(1)

NAME
w3m - a text based Web browser and pager SYNOPSIS
w3m [options] [URL or filename] Use "w3m -h" to display a complete list of current options. DESCRIPTION
w3m is a World Wide Web (WWW) text based client. It has English and Japanese help files and an option menu and can be configured to use either language. It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems. It can display HTML tables and frames. In addition, it can be used as a "pager" in much the same man- ner as "more" or "less". Current versions of w3m run on Unix (Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, and EWS4800) and on Microsoft Windows 9x/NT. OPTIONS
At start up, w3m will load any local file or remote URL specified at the command line. For help with runtime options, press "H" while run- ning w3m. Command line options are: -t tab set tab width -r ignore backspace effect -l line # of preserved line (default 10000) -s Shift_JIS -j JIS -e EUC-JP -B load bookmark -bookmark file specify bookmark file -T type specify content-type -m internet message mode -v visual startup mode -M monochrome display -F automatically render frame -dump dump formatted page into stdout -cols width specify column width (used with -dump) -ppc count specify the number of pixels per character (default 8.0) Larger values will make tables narrower. -dump_source dump page source into stdout -dump_head dump response of HEAD request into stdout -dump_both dump HEAD and source into stdout -dump_extra dump HEAD, source, and extra information into stdout -post file use POST method with file content -header string insert string as a header +<num> goto <num> line -num show line number -no-proxy don't use proxy -no-mouse don't use mouse -pauth user:pass proxy authentication -S squeeze multiple blank lines -W toggle wrap search mode -X don't use termcap init/deinit -o opt=value assign value to config option -config file specify config file -debug DO NOT USE EXAMPLES
To use w3m as a pager: $ ls | w3m To use w3m to translate HTML files: $ cat foo.html | w3m -T text/html or $ cat foo.html | w3m -dump -T text/html >foo.txt NOTES
This is the w3m 0.2.1 Release. Additional information about w3m may be found on its Japanese language Web site located at: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.ja.html or on its English version of the site at: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/index.en.html ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
w3m has incorporated code from several sources. Hans J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers, Xerox Corp. and Silicon Graphics have the copyright of the GC library comes with w3m package. Users have contributed patches and suggestions over time. AUTHOR
Akinori ITO <aito@fw.ipsj.or.jp> 4th Berkeley Distribution Local W3M(1)