DeckScape(1)                                                      DeckScape(1)

NAME
       DeckScape - An Experimental World-Wide Web Browser

SYNTAX
       DeckScape [-clean]

DESCRIPTION
       DeckScape  is  an  experimental  World-Wide  Web  browser  based on the
       metaphor of a deck of playing cards, where each card is a Web page, and
       each deck is displayed in its own window.  As the user traverses links,
       new pages appear on top of the current deck. Retrievals are done  using
       a background thread, so all visible pages in any deck are active at all
       times. Users can move and copy pages between decks, and  decks  can  be
       used  as  a general-purpose way to organize material, such as hotlists,
       query results, and breadth-first expansions.

       More details about the system can be found in SRC 135:
         http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/SRC-135a.html
       This  paper  appeared in the Third International World-Wide Web Confer-
       ence (April 1995). A short version of it appeared in CHI'95:
         http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documnts/short-
       ppr/mhb2_bdy.htm
       WWW_HOME  --  The  URL of the "home" page. At SRC, the current value is
       "http://src-www.pa.dec.com/src.home.html".

       http_proxy -- The name of a proxy server. The format  is  "http://foo",
       with  an  optional  port.   At  SRC,  the current value is "http://www-
       proxy.pa.dec.com:8080/".

       no_proxy -- Domain names for which no proxy should be  consulted.   The
       format  is  a  comma-separated  list  of domain names, with an optional
       port. At SRC, the current value is "src-www,.dec.com".
       Images are displayed using the following ppm  filters:  giftoppm,  ppm-
       topgm, pgmtopbm, djpeg, and xbmtopbm.

FILES
       The system maintains the state of the decks in the file
         ~/.deckscape  between  invocations. If the system crashes on startup,
       try deleting this file, or start DeckScape with the -clean  flag.   The
       file is essentially a list of URLs; if you edit it, do so carefully!

BUGS
       The  HTML viewer is fragile and vanilla. It recognizes HTML 2.0, except
       for forms; however, the viewer does not deal with incorrect  HTML  very
       gracefully  and  most Web pages contain incorrect HTML. The system does
       not support external viewers.
       Marc H. Brown and Robert A. Shillner
       Marc H. Brown

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