How to use twin(tcl/tk for MS-Windows)

					August 23, 1994
					Software Research Associates, Inc.

[1] How to extract
  Suppose the destination directory is c:\twin in this section.

	1) Move to the destination directory.
		cd \

	2) Extract the file.
		pkunzip -d twinebin.zip

	Then, you will find 3 directories twin\bin, twin\tcl, twin\tk).

[2] How to use wish
   Add c:\twin\bin to your PATH environment variable and set the following 
   environment variables.  Note that separator must be "/".

	set TCL_LIBRARY=c:/twin/tcl
        set TK_LIBRARY=c:/twin/tk
	set DISPLAY=hostname:0.0	(Anything is fine.)
	set HOME=c:/		(the directory when you do "cd ~" command.)

    

   Choose [File]-[Run] in menu of ProgramManager , and input wish.

[3] How to start widget demo

   Choose [File]-[New]-[ProgramItem] in ProgramManager, and set

	Description:		Widget toor
	CommandLine:		wish -f widget
	WorkingDirectory:	c:\twin\tk\demos

   Now you can start widget demo by double click to icon.


[4]  Characteristics and limitation of twin
1. Support compiler
    Microsoft Visual C++ ver 1.0.

2. User init file
   $HOME/_wishrc
    
3. Non support command
   "exec" and "send" are not supported.

4. Bitmap
   Option "-bitmap @file" now supports Windows BITMAP file.

5. Printer
   Canvas option "-print" has been added insted of "-postscript"
   option due to support direct printing to Windows printer.

6. Color
   All X-Windows rgb.txt is supported. 

7. Font
   You can use font names in Windows rule.
   (FontName-Stype-Size)
   e.g. "Courier New-Normal-14" (This is default font)

8. File system
   File separator is '/' but not '\'.
   glob command don't extract drive name.

9. Focus & grab
   Focus and grab works but not a global grab.
   "grab -global" is as same as "grab"

10. wm
   Most of options are supported including min and max.
   Though protocol (and maybe a little more) option is not supported.

11. widget toor demo 
   tkdemo works without any problem if you change font rules
   in Windows rule.

12. new command
   "chdrive" (change drive) command is newly added.

13. speed
   Run time speed depends on the Windows function "bitblt"
   (Windows-API).

14. Easy to change
   This version include xlibrary fuction.
   So It is easy to follow Tk's version up.