A Tk Interface to World Wide Web 0.2 ALPHA
Joseph C Wang
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tkWWW 0.2 Alpha
by Joseph Wang (j...@athena.mit.edu)
A Tk interface to World Wide Web (ALPHA TEST)
WHAT IS IT?
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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
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)
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 0.1
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Many bug fixes
Better demo files
WHERE IS IT?
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export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/tkWWW-0.2.tar.Z
barkley.berkeley.edu:/tcl/extensions/tkWWW-0.2.tar.Z
info.cern.ch:
MAILING LIST
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WHAT DO I NEED TO INSTALL IT?
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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 this tar file.