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From: wesley_bailey@yahoo.com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: tkWorld 1.0 Beta Release 3
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:09:30 GMT

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			  tkWorld-1.0 Beta 3
		    Wes's Own Really Lazy Desktop
			Written By Wes Bailey

			 tkworld@tkworld.org
			http://www.tkworld.org
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New Features - Beta Release 3
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New to this release of tkWorld is shell and working directory
management.  In the first Beta release, all commands were executed
using the "Bourne Shell" or whichever shell sh pointed to on the users
system.  In this release, users can select the shell to interpret
commands with from a drop down list box which contains a list of
commonly used shells.

Another failure with the previous release of tkWorld was that a user
had to manually switch to a directory in the Command Center by typing

        cd yourdir; command here

tkWorld now has a drop down listbox which allows the user to select
from the sub-directories of the current working directory, or choose a
parent directory.  The directory button then lists the contents of the
current working directory.  Now scripts are executed in the current
working directory instead of the directory that tkWorld was started
from.

Initial Notes - Beta Release 2 (First Public Release)
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tkWorld was born out of frustration by a developer who forgets command
line options to often used shell commands. The process of accessing
the man page, building the command, then piping the output to more or
less is very tedious. Bash and other shells provide workable
interfaces with Emacs and Vi key-bindings, command history, and the
process pipeline.  However, none of these features are integrated with
the mouse, nor do they provide acceptable views of pages of
scroll-able output. Basically, the author just got tired of using the
xterm for daily work, debugging shell scripts, and writing commands.

tkWorld is an acronym for Wes's Own Really Lazy Desktop. It is a
collection of graphical user interfaces to standard Unix
commands. Built on a Linux workstation with Unix users in mind, it
maintains the integrity and features of the Unix operating system, but
does not compromise the Unix philosophy of using small tools together
to solve a large problem. Unlike other desktops and tools, this
package does not force MS-Windows features, which do not fit into
Unix, on you or the operating system.

Using tkWorld is much easier than using the shell.  Instead of typing
a command at the prompt, you build them through a series of non-modal
dialogs that have check buttons for command line options, and entries
for data to be input.  After constructing your command, you run it in
the Command Center which is a script editor.  After executing your
command, your view the output Log Window which is a text editor.
There is also a toolbar which makes using tkWorld easy too.  You can
save your scripts, save your output to a file, and turn balloon help
on and off.

With this release of tkWorld, there are dialogs for the following
widely used Unix commands:

       Find
       Grep
       Make

DOWNLOADING
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For complete information on this project, check out the official
website:

        http://www.tkworld.org

From here you can download the most recent release of the project:

Hope you appreciate and enjoy the tools in tkWorld!

Wes Bailey

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