WELCOME TO... ------------- Tkmailto 1.0a May 1994 ===================== OVERVIEW ------------ All over the world a lot of development of MIME is done, but we have not found any good interface for composing MIME- messages. Either they are too big and complex or not so user friendly. What we wanted was the functionality from the program mailto but with a better user interface. WHAT ---- Tkmailto is a Tk-based mailcomposer for mail, which supports MIME. The functions are also based on the program mailto. However tkmailto does not share any code with mailto - it is a completely new implementation. The program is written in the languages Tcl/Tk and Safe-Tcl. I have to say that this is just an alpha version of Tkmailto and the program can not do everything. The advantages are that it is very easy to install and it does not need so much space. I hope you will enjoy the program and that you can use it at your site. AVAILABILITY ------------ The distribution has been uploaded to harbor.ecn.purdue.edu INSTALLATION ------------ Installation is done via the tkmailto.install script. Invoke it as: "wish -f ./tkmailto.install" This puts up a dialog box that lets you patch various file system specific pathnames. Read the info in the dialog box and enter the appropriate file system pathnames. 1. Click Patch to sed the tkmailto.MASTER script and create the main tkmailto file. 2. Then click TclIndex to generate the library index. 3. And click Test to try it out. 4. If you are satisfied, click Install to copy the main script and the supporting libraries into their destination directories. REQUIREMENTS ------------ - Tk 3.6 - Tcl 7.3 - Safe-Tcl 1.1 Tk and Tcl are available on - ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/tcl/ - ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/sprite-mirror/ Safe-Tcl is available on - ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/ DOCUMENTATION ------------- - tkmailto.README (This document) - tkmailto.ps (The user manual) - tkmailto.l (The man page) - tkmailtorc.sample (The configure file for the user) AUTHOR ------ Johan Lindbladh (tet90jl@tintin.hik.se) A Swedish who does not know how much time he has for Tkmailto in the future, because this was the examination work and now he will finish the education. But the ideas are there. BUG REPORTS ----------- Comments, suggestions, etc should be mailed to me at the above email address. You can even mail to me if you like the Tkmailto. FURTHER WORKS ----------------------- If I get a good response and have time enought, then I will make a new and better version. COPYRIGHT 1994 Siemens KWU, Erlangen ------------------------------------ Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this documentation is hereby granted, provided that this copyright notice appears in all copies. This software is provided without any warranty, express or implied. Siemens KWU Erlangen makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --------------- First of all I want to thank my two supervisors Dr. Lothar Burow and Uwe Mirk by Siemens KWU in Erlangen, who have supported and helped me during the project. Then I also want to thank: Nathaniel Borenstein, for his help and his quick answers about the syntax of Safe-Tcl. All people in the newsgroups Tcl/Tk mail mirror of comp.lang.tcl for a lot of tips and small parts of code. John Ousterhout, the inventor of Tcl/Tk, without him and his co-operators this project would not have been possible to make. Brent Welch, for his clever user interface for installing a tk application. Sven Delmas, for the fileselectorbox I use in the program.