Announcing tkWWW 0.7, the first WYWSIWYG X11 HTML editor

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From: joe@athena.mit.edu
Date: Sat, 1 May 93 23:06:44 -0400
Message-id: <9305020306.AA23084@theodore-sturgeon>
To: www-announce@nxoc01.cern.ch, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch,
        tk-www@athena.mit.edu
Cc: tcl-archive@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu
Subject: Announcing tkWWW 0.7, the first WYWSIWYG X11 HTML editor


tkWWW Version 0.7 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).

it is very easy to make modifications and extensions to the system.
tkWWW is the first X11 browser with the ability to edit HTML!!!!!

What has changed since 0.6?
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Rough WYWSIWYG editor!!!!!!!!!!! 
   (with help from Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>)
Bug fixes courtesy of Jon Hurley (jhn@biosym.com)
Uses www library version 2.0
Can now grab images over gopher
Added ability to start in iconic mode

Where is this?
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tkWWW 0.7 can be anon ftp'ed from
   export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/tkWWW-0.7.tar.Z
   harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/tcl/extensions/tkWWW-0.7.tar.Z
   info.cern.ch:/pub/WWW/src/tkWWW-0.7.tar.Z

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

To report bugs, send e-mail to
  
   tk-www-bugs@athena.mit.edu