Announcing tkWWW-0.9

joe@athena.mit.edu
Sat, 04 Sep 93 23:48:43 EDT


tkWWW Version 0.9 beta (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.

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

tkWWW is a Tk interface to (WWW).

Since the entire user interface is written in an interpreted language,
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 0.8?
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* Much better editing user interface
Thanks to creilly@maths.tcd.ie and jay@bogle.eitech.com
* Recognition of character style tags
* Partial support for IMAGE tags
* Compatibility with TCL 7.0
* Compatibility with old HTTP servers

To get tkWWW 0.9
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tkWWW can be anonymous ftped from

info.cern.ch:/pub/www/src/tkWWW-0.9.tar.Z
ftp.x.org:/contrib/tkWWW-0.9.tar.Z
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkWWW-0.9.tar.Z

To Install
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In this directory

1. Edit the file "tkWWW.imake" to set system defaults
2. Look at the file "Tcl/config.cpp"
3. Type "xmkmf"
4. Type "make"
5. Type "make install"