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- $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.55 2002/03/24 16:08:08 swa Exp $
+ $Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.56 2002/03/24 16:17:06 swa Exp $
Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
Privoxy team. http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net
<artheader>
<title>Privoxy User Manual</title>
-<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.55 2002/03/24 16:08:08 swa Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: user-manual.sgml,v 1.56 2002/03/24 16:17:06 swa Exp $</pubdate>
<authorgroup>
<author>
multi-user networks.
</para>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is derived from
+ <application>Internet Junkbuster</application> by Junkbusters Corporation,
+ which is no longer under development. Many enhancements and
+ new features have been added.
+
+</para>
+
<para>
This documentation is included with the current BETA version of
<application>Privoxy</application> and is mostly complete at this
<para>
<screen>
- tar xzvf ijb_source_* [.tgz or .tar.gz]
- cd ijb_source_2.9.11_beta
+ tar xzvf privoxy-2.9.13-beta-src* [.tgz or .tar.gz]
+ cd privoxy-2.9.13-beta
</screen>
</para>
<para>
The <quote>default.action</quote> file (formerly
- <filename>actionsfile</filename>) is used to define what actions
+ <filename>actionsfile</filename> or <filename>ijb.action</filename>) is used to define what actions
<application>Privoxy</application> takes, and thus determines how images,
cookies and various other aspects of HTTP content and transactions are
handled. Images can be anything you want, including ads, banners, or just
<sect2>
<title>History</title>
+<para>
+ <application>Privoxy</application> is derived from
+ <application>the Internet Junkbuster</application>, with many
+ improvments and enhancements over the original.
+</para>
+
<para>
<application>Junkbuster</application> was originally written by Anonymous
Coders and <ulink
Waldherr</ulink> made many improvements, and started the <ulink
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/">SourceForge project
Privoxy</ulink> to rekindle development. There are now several active
- developers contributing. The last stable release was v2.0.2, which has now
+ developers contributing. The last stable release of
+ <application>Junkbuster</application> was v2.0.2, which has now
grown whiskers ;-).
</para>
<para>
First, enter one URL (or partial URL) at the prompt, and then
<application>Privoxy</application> will tell us
- how current configuration will handle it. This will not
- help with filtering effects from the <filename>default.filter</filename>! It
+ how the current configuration will handle it. This will not
+ help with filtering effects from the <filename>default.filter</filename> file! It
also will not tell you about any other URLs that may be embedded within the
URL you are testing. For instance, images such as ads are expressed as URLs
within the raw page source of HTML pages. So you will only get info for the
Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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+ configure needs to be generated.
+
Revision 1.55 2002/03/24 16:08:08 swa
we are too lazy to make a block-built
privoxy logo. hence removed the option.