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A Tk Interface to World Wide Web 0.2 ALPHA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Perez)
Mon Aug 10 11:09:56 1992
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 10:05:25 CDT
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From: Ernest Perez <demoep@mail.psi.net>
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PACS-L subscribers may be interested in the referenced World Wide Web
systems in this message from Joe Wang, at M.I.T., which appeared in
several newsgroups. The WHAT IS IT paragraph above the description of
his software module identifies several Telnet-able installations of WWW.
- Ernest Perez
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 06:49:06 GMT
From: joe@athena.mit.edu (Joseph C Wang)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Subject: A Tk Interface to World Wide Web 0.2 ALPHA
ANNOUNCING: tkWWW 0.2 Alpha
by Joseph Wang (joe@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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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?
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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.
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 08 Aug 92 00:59:02 -0500.
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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 92 12:46:01 EDT
To: "Ernest Perez" <demoep@mail.psi.net>
From: Joseph Wang <joe@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: A Tk Interface to World Wide Web 0.2 ALPHA
Sure. You have my permission to send the referenced article verbatim to
whoever you want.
