printing WAIS documents

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From: gss@iil.intel.com (Sheaffer Gad)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 17:38:49 +0200
Message-id: <9303091538.AA51097@ilx051>
To: wei@xcf.berkeley.edu
Subject: printing WAIS documents
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch



Viola uses the line mode browser to convert html documents to
text. In doing it for WAIS documents, I encounter two problems:

1 - the URL of those documents contain ";" telling the shell that
    the instruction ended. you ahve  to go out of viola, and enclose
    it in quotation marks.

2 - Even after doing that, I get a message saying:

    "Fatal Error:  Returned message too large"

Is the documnet to long for the line mode browser, or is the URL to long ?


Example - printing a page from the Usenet Cookbook whose URL is:

http://info.cern.ch:8001/cmns-moon.think.com:210/WWP/TEXT/1706/2=cmns-moon.think.com;3=0000000223WWP%20;7=%00;

Any idea where what is wrong ? Viola has no difficulty displaying the page.

Gad