From: "Dennis LaBelle" <dlabelle@nycap.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: freeWrap - New version and move to SourceForge
Date: 9 Jan 2001 12:23:50 -0800

This message announces the first beta release of freeWrap version 5.0

The freeWrap program turns TCL/TK scripts into single-file binary
executable programs. freeWrap can wrap TCL/TK applications that consist of
multiple script and binary files. freeWrap combines all the files together
into a single executable file.

freeWrap 5.0b1 is based on TCL/TK 8.3.2

freeWrap executables are freely available for both Linux and
Windows95/98/NT.

Instructions and source code for building freeWrap on both Windows and UNIX
platforms is also freely available.

The following additional variations of freeWrap are also available for
download:

     freewrapBLT         a windowing application that includes TCL/TK and
the BLT extension
     freewrapTCLSH       a console-only application which includes only
TCL.


Please visit the freeWrap home page at its new home:

          http://freewrap.sourceforge.net


Changes implemented in version 5.0b1
---------------------------------------

1) The basic method of storing wrapped files with freeWrap has changed. All
wrapped files are now compressed. Therefore, wrapped applications will now
be smaller.

2) Some freewrap:: variables and procedures have been deleted and some new
ones added.

3) The name rules for referring to wrapped files have changed slightly.

4) Encoding file cp1252.enc is now included as the default encoding for
freeWrap.

5) The freeWrap source code has been restructured to produce a simpler
process for building different versions of freeWrap under different
operating systems.


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