Announcing tkWWW Version 0.5 Alpha

joe@athena.mit.edu
From: joe@athena.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 01:26:37 -0500
Message-id: <9302080626.AA19528@theodore-sturgeon>
To: tk-www@athena.mit.edu, www-announce@nxoc01.cern.ch,
        www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, tcl-archive@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Announcing tkWWW Version 0.5 Alpha

tkWWW Version 0.5 alpha (joe@athena.mit.edu)
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WHAT IS THIS?
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World Wide Web (WWW) is a hypertext project which seeks to build a
world wide network of hypertext links.  There are several different
browsers for this system including a simple tty interface.  For a 
demo of the terminal browsers for WWW, telnet to the following sites:

 telnet info.cern.ch or telnet 128.141.201.74 (SWISS)
 telnet eies2.njit.edu or telnet 128.235.1.43 (USA [NJ])
 telnet vms.huji.ac.il or telnet 128.139.4.3  (ISRAEL)
 telnet info.funet.fi or telnet 128.214.6.100 (FINLAND)

 and login as "www"

Tk is an interpreted toolkit which allows one to build X11 applications
quickly and easily.

tkWWW is a Tk interface to (WWW), which lets you send embedded buttons,
scrollbars, etc in hypertext written for WWW.

The Tk browser has the following advantages.

1. Since the entire user interface is written in an interpreted 
   language, it should be very easy to make modifications and extensions
   to the system.

2. tkWWW can be configured with the "htext" widget which makes it is 
   possible to imbed Tk code into hypertext or with the "text" widget
   which makes it possible to display multi-fonts.  In the next few
   months, there will be a new revision of tK which will allow imbeded
   tK code with the "text" widget and support for the tkWWW "htext" widget
   will be discontinued.

WHERE IS THIS?
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tkWWW 0.5 can be anon ftp'ed from
   export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/tkWWW-0.5.tar.Z
   barkley.berkeley.edu:/tcl/extensions/tkWWW-0.5.tar.Z
   info.cern.ch:/pub/WWW/src/tkWWW-0.5.tar.Z

WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE 0.4?
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Converted tkWWW to use www library 1.1a
Introduced multi-fonts
Added menu options to access various tkWWW sources.
Added cloning by pressing button2.

MAILING LIST
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There is a mailing list devoted to discussions about tkWWW at 
 
   tk-www@athena.mit.edu

To get on this list, send e-mail to

   tk-www-request@athena.mit.edu

INSTALLATION
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1. Edit the file "tkWWW.imake" to set system defaults

2. Type the following commands in the directory TkWWW

    xmkmf
    make world
    make install