From: John Stump <iliad@doitnow.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: New Version of Tea
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 17:32:37 -0700

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This is the announcement of Tea version 2.1.

This version adds these features:

     * Classes can be put into an archive (zip), called a tea pot.
     * New tpot utility for manipulating tea pot archive.
     * New -tpot option to tea to run app from tea pot archive.
     * Support for stand alone environment.
     * New tre utility to run Tea apps without full install.
     * Interactive spell checker example
     * Various bug fixes.


What Is Tea?

Tea is a wrapper around Tcl that provides object-oriented functionality
and features. The model Tea follows is that defined by Java. Tea tries
to implement the "look" of Java from a class definition perspective,
yet still remain as syntactically consistent with Tcl/Tk as possible.

Download the complete distribution for tea v2.1 from
http://www.doitnow.com/~iliad/Tcl/tea/tea-2.1.tar.gz or visit the Tea
website at http://www.doitnow.com/~iliad/Tcl/tea/.  Here you will find
the distribution tar file as well as much more detailed documentation.

john stump
Sep 1998

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