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- From: joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang)
- Subject: ANNOUNCING: tkWWW 0.3 Alpha
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:23:18 GMT
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- ANNOUNCING:
- tkWWW 0.3 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. For a
- demos 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.
-
- IMPROVEMENTS SINCE 0.2
- ----------------------
- Increased speed
- Many bug fixes
-
- WHERE IS IT?
- ------------
- export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/tkWWW-0.3.tar.Z
- barkley.berkeley.edu:
- info.cern.ch:
-
- MAILING LIST
- ------------
- The mailing list "tk-www@athena.mit.edu" exists for discussion of tk-www.
- To subscribe send e-mail to "tk-www-request@athena.mit.edu"
-
- 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
-
- To install this program, unpack the WWW line-mode browser source and
- cd to the directory WWW. Unpack the tkWWW tar file.
-
-