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- JSTOOLS VERSION 3.6/3.0 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
-
- This directory contains version 3.6/3.0 of the jstools distribution.
-
- Please send bug reports and comments to me, <js@bu.edu>. I am interested
- in comments on the documentation as well as the code itself.
-
- IMPORTANT: This version is not guaranteed to run under Tk 4.0! It's
- been written and tested under Tk 3.6, and seems reasonably stable there.
- As I write, there's a bug in focus handling in Tk 4.0b2 (the second beta
- release of Tk 4) which poses severe problems for these scripts. The
- non-beta release of Tk 4.0 isn't likely to suffer from this problem, but
- the jstools applications and libraries will function a little
- differently from the way they're documented under Tk 4.0.
-
- TESTING
-
- To test jstools from this directory, you should add <here>/bin
- to your PATH environment variable, and set the environment variable
- JSTOOLS_LIB to <here>/lib . (If you're just installing jstools for
- your own use, in your own directory, you can just leave it where you
- unpacked it, set JSTOOLS_LIB and PATH appropriately in your .cshrc
- or .profile, and leave it at that.)
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- To install jstools, just run the jinstall wish script in this directory,
- fill in the fields properly (help is available within the script), and
- click on the `Install' button. You can
-
- If you don't have wish or the X Window System available when you're
- installing jstools, or if you just prefer to do things the hard way, you
- can (recursively) copy ./lib to a library directory for the jstools
- package (/usr/local/lib/jstools is a reasonable choice). Then, if you
- haven't chosen to put the libraries in /usr/local/lib/jstools, you
- should change "/usr/local/lib/jstools" to whatever directory you chose
- in the scripts in ./bin, and also (if necessary) change the path to the
- wish interpreter in their first lines. If you want to install the
- "works-in-progress" in the "w-in-p" directory, do the same thing with
- them. (Note that jperson is a tclsh script rather than a wish script.)
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- Documentation is included in jdoc format; it gets installed when you
- copy ./lib (or it gets found under $JSTOOLS_LIB). You can type "jdoc"
- to get a list of (cryptically-named) topics to choose from, or you
- can type "jdoc jstools" and/or "jdoc jslibraries" to get an overview;
- those documents contain links to the rest of the documentation.
-
- The jdoc documents are used by the `Help' commands under each application's
- leftmost menu. (Yes, this is non-Motif; I'll fix it in a future release. :-)
-
- Jay Sekora
- <js@bu.edu>
- 1994.02.14
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