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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
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- Subject: Announcing: A Tk browser to the World Wide Web 0.1 (ALPHA TEST)
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 10:12:22 -0400
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- you may have seen this on one of the other groups which this was posted
- on, but just in case it's here too. --Ed
-
- [ Article crossposted from comp.lang.tcl,alt.hypertext,comp.windows.x,comp.lang.sgml ]
- [ Author was joe@athena.mit.edu ]
-
- ANNOUNCING:
- tkWWW 0.1 Alpha
- by Joseph Wang (joe@athena.mit.edu)
-
- A Tk interface to World Wide Web (ALPHA TEST)
-
- WHAT IS IT?
- -----------
- 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.
-
- Tk is an interpreted toolkit which allows one to build X11 applications
- quickly and easily.
-
- tkWWW is a Tk interface to (WWW).
-
- WHY ANOTHER WWW BROWSER?
- ------------------------
- This Tk browser has two significant advantages.
-
- 1. Since it is written in a interpreted language, it is very easy to make
- modifications and extensions to it.
-
- 2. More importantly, tkWWW uses the "Hyper" widget of the Tk toolkit.
- This "Hyper" widget allows one to emmbed Tk applications in the
- hypertext, allowing such things as graphics and animation.
-
- WHERE IS IT?
- ------------
- export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/tkWWW-0.1.tar.Z
-
- Copies have been uploaded to the WWW archive at info.cern.ch and the Tcl
- archive at barkley.berkeley.edu. They should be available shortly.
-
-
- WHAT DO I NEED TO INSTALL IT?
- -----------------------------
- In order to install tkWWW you will need
-
- The code for the WWW line-mode browser. (anon ftp from info.cern.ch)
- Libraries for tk and tcl (I'm using tk2.1 and tcl6.3)
-
- A wish intepreter which contains the Hyper and XYGraph widgets
-
- A reasonable knowledge of UNIX and wish is needed as this is
- alpha test software.
-
- To install this program, unpack the WWW line-mode browser source and
- cd to the directory $(top-dir)/WWW. Unpack the tkWWW tar file.
-
- When you have got the thing running (or it fails to install), e-mail
- me to let me know how it turned out.
-
- WHAT'S THE CATCH?
- -----------------
- The catch is that this is very, very buggy software that was cobbled
- together in three days of frantic hacking. Use it at your own risk.
-
- One of the non-obvious bugs is that if the browser exits abnormally it
- will leave a dead process called "tkWWW" that will have to be killed
- manually.
-
- Comments, suggestions, and code modification are always appreciated.
-
- ENJOY........
-