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<email>seemant@gentoo.org</email> | <email>seemant@gentoo.org</email> |
<name>Seemant Kulleen</name> | <name>Seemant Kulleen</name> |
</maintainer> | </maintainer> |
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<longdescription> |
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Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW |
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search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, |
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babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from |
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the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these |
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wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to |
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the shell. |
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Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what |
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it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the |
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shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with |
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netscape-remote or incremental text browsers, such as links |
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(http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/), w3m (http://www.w3m.org/), |
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and screen(1) a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave |
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GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder. |
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</longdescription> |
</pkgmetadata> | </pkgmetadata> |
