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COMMERCIAL/EVALUATION: asWedit 1.1.1 - HTML 3, 2 & text editor for X/Motif
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jul 23 03:27:05 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:44:57 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk (A. Stochniol)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: COMMERCIAL/EVALUATION: asWedit 1.1.1 - HTML 3, 2 & text editor for X/Motif
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Keywords: HTML, HTML3, HTML2, HTML authoring, WWW, text editor, Motif, X-Window
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asWedit HTML 3 and HTML 2 editor Version 1.1.1 (English Release)
What
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asWedit is an easy to use HTML 3, HTML 2 and text editor for X Window
System and Motif. This '3-in-1' release offers a standard text editing
mode and context-sensitive HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML 3 and HTML 2)
modes for editing of files used on the World Wide Web (WWW).
HTML features
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o context-sensitive HTML 3 or HTML 2 mode; only tags valid in the
current context are available
o full support for all HTML 3 tags and attributes based on the
HTML 3 Document Type Definition (DTD) as of 24 March 1995
(it was the first context-sensitive HTML 3 editor available :-) )
o full support for all HTML 2 tags and attributes based on the
HTML 2 Document Type Definition (DTD) as of 29 March 1995 (v 1.25)
o creation of correct HTML 3 or HTML 2 documents
o support for different styles of editing: assistive tagging, cut and
paste, by hand and parse
o attribute editors
o rich set of entities, including greek and user-defined ones
o comprehensive context-sensitive, hypertext help with topics
on a selected tag and edited attribute (version related)
o on-line hints when importing and correcting legacy HTML documents
o preview mode that uses Netscape 1.1, Mosaic 2.5, Arena or Lynx
(interprocess communication is used for Netscape and Mosaic)
General features
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o modern graphical user interface (GUI)
o multiple editing windows
o pop-up menu for mouse-oriented editing
o user customizable toolbar
o comprehensive context sensitive, hypertext on-line help
o multiple undo and redo of edit actions
o all standard editing features like: text Cut, Copy and Paste,
bookmarks, pair matching, search and replace, etc.
o commands to change case of letters, spell and sort
o formatting commands (move, indent, re-format etc.)
o user customizable filters and commands
o customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method
o easy localization to left-to-right languages (8-bit characters)
o special no HTML mode for quick start-up and plain text editing
Who by
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Andrzej Stochniol (A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk)
30 Hatch Road, London SW16 4PN, UK.
Release Date
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19 July 1995
Availability
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asWedit is available for free for students and staff in education and
charitable non-profit organizations, and for free evaluation by
individuals and commercial organizations. See the license for details.
asWedit is available in binary form by anonymous ftp from:
<URL:ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/>
The above site is known also as: "src.doc.ic.ac.uk" and supports
all methods of file downloading, i.e. ftp, http, gopher, ftpmail, ...
The software is mirrored in US on:
<URL:ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/www/asWedit/>
Following platforms are supported:
file Id System OS
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rs6k.aix3.2.3 IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.3
rs6k.aix3.2.5 IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5
sgi.irix4 SGI IRIX 4.0.x
sgi.irix5 SGI IRIX 5.x
sparc.sunos4 SUN Sparc SunOS 4.1.3
sparc.solaris2.3 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.3
sparc.solaris2.4 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.4
hp.hpux9 HP9000 700/800 HP-UX 9.x
alpha.osf-v3 DEC Alpha OSF/1 V3.x
ultrix.4.3 DEC station Ultrix 4.3
fat3.next3 HP-PA,NeXT,i386 NeXTSTEP 3.x (X req.!)
i386.sco PC, i386 SCO
i386.sco5 PC, i386 SCO Open Server 5
i386.linux PC, i386 Linux
i386.linux_dyna PC, i386 Linux (libXm req.)
To obtain the binary distribution please download the compressed tar file
for your platform and then unpack it. For example for IRIX 5 download
a file asWedit-1.1.1-sgi.irix5.tar.Z. To unpack it you can use the
following:
zcat asWedit-1.1.1-sgi.irix5.tar.Z | tar xvf -
(the distribution will be placed into asWedit-1.1.1 directory).
If you want to use Emacs bindings get the following file as well:
emacs-mode-asWedit-1.1.1.tar.Z
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Andrzej
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A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk
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