From Henry Thu Nov 21 13:09:58 1996 Article: 17754 of comp.infosystems.www.announce From: Henry Minsky <hqm@ua.com> Subject: SOFTWARE: Meta-HTML 5.01 Source Release Date: 20 Nov 1996 21:49:07 -0500 Meta-HTML 5.01 Source Release Version 5.01 of Universal Access Inc.'s <Meta-HTML> distribution is now available via anonymous FTP from: ftp://ftp.metahtml.com/pub/source/metahtml-5.01.tar.gz It should be available from prep.ai.mit.edu, and other GNU mirror sites within the next two weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------ What is it? <Meta-HTML> is a programming language specifically designed for working within the World Wide Web environment. Although it is a genuine programming language, suitable for large-scale symbolic manipulation, it provides the most commonly wanted Web functionality as built-in primitives, so you don't have to write them. You can find out more about the theory of implementation in this white paper http://www.metahtml.com/meta-html/manifesto.html. Web pages are authored using HTML and <Meta-HTML> statements freely intermixed. When a page is requested by a browser, the page is passed through the <Meta-HTML> engine, which dynamically processes any <Meta-HTML> statements to produce a final HTML page which is delivered to the browser. The source distribution provides several different interpreter options: * A CGI engine which can be run by any Unix Web server, * A full-featured Web server (mhttpd) with the interpreter built in, * A standalone processor, much like Perl or Tcl, and * An interactive debugger, with a feel similar to GDB (mdb) ------------------------------------------------------------ <Meta-HTML> Changes in 5.01 from 5.00 THE <META-HTML> REFERENCE MANUAL CAN NOW BE PRINTED OUT! The file `doc/manual/metahtml.ps' is a postscript version of the manual, and the mhc script `build-ps' can be used to generate the manual from the documentation files and databases. In order to generate the manual, you will have to have the TeX, texindex, and dvips programs installed, and in your path. E-Mail Addresses and URLs Bug reports for <Meta-HTML> should be sent to bug-metahtml@metahtml.com. Bug reports for the documentation should be sent to bug-manual@metahtml.com. There is a user mailing list: metahtml-users@metahtml.com. You can subscribe on the Web http://www.metahtml.com/E-Mail/, or by sending mail to metahtml-users-request@metahtml.com. Pre-compiled distribution sets are available via the <Meta-HTML> Web site at http://www.metahtml.com. We currently have versions for bsdi-2.0-i386, hpux-10.10-hppa, irix-5.3-mips, linux-i386, osf-3.0-alpha, solaris-2.5-i386, solaris-2.5-sun4m, and sunos-4.1.4-sun4m