Welcome to...
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	asWedit HTML 3 and HTML 2 editor Version 1.1.1  (English Release)

	(version for SUN Sparc running SunOS 5.4)


What
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asWedit is an easy to use HTML 3, HTML 2 and text editor for X Window
System and Motif. In addition to standard text editing features it offers
context-sensitive HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML 3 and HTML 2) modes for
editing of files used on the World Wide Web (WWW).

HTML features
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  o context-sensitive HTML 3 or HTML 2 mode; only tags valid in the
    current context are available
  o full support for all HTML 3 tags and attributes based on the
    HTML 3 Document Type Definition (DTD) as of 24 March 1995
    (it was the first context-sensitive HTML 3 editor available :-) )
  o full support for all HTML 2 tags and attributes based on the
    HTML 2 Document Type Definition (DTD) as of 29 March 1995 (v 1.25)
  o creation of correct HTML 3 or HTML 2 documents
  o support for different styles of editing: assistive tagging, cut and
    paste, by hand and parse
  o attribute editors
  o rich set of entities, including greek and user-defined ones
  o comprehensive context-sensitive, hypertext help with topics
    on a selected tag and edited attribute (version related)
  o on-line hints when importing and correcting legacy HTML documents
  o preview mode that uses Netscape 1.1, Mosaic 2.5, Arena or Lynx
    (interprocess communication is used for Netscape and Mosaic)

General features
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  o modern graphical user interface (GUI)
  o multiple editing windows
  o pop-up menu for mouse-oriented editing
  o user customizable toolbar
  o comprehensive context sensitive, hypertext on-line help
  o multiple undo and redo of edit actions
  o all standard editing features like: text Cut, Copy and Paste,
    bookmarks, pair matching, search and replace, etc.
  o commands to change case of letters, spell and sort
  o formatting commands (move, indent, re-format etc.)
  o user customizable filters and commands
  o customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method
  o easy localization to left-to-right languages (8-bit characters)
  o special no HTML mode for quick start-up and plain text editing

Who by
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Andrzej Stochniol   (A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk)
30 Hatch Road, London SW16 4PN, UK.

Release Date
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19 July 1995


Availability
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asWedit is available for free for students and staff in education and
charitable non-profit organizations, and for free evaluation by
individuals and commercial organizations. See the license for details.

asWedit is available in binary form by anonymous ftp from:

	 <URL:ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/>

The above site is known also as: "src.doc.ic.ac.uk" and supports
all methods of file downloading, i.e. ftp, http, gopher, ftpmail, ...

The software is also mirrored in US on:

	<URL:ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/www/asWedit/>


Following platforms are supported:

 file Id	   System	         OS
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 rs6k.aix3.2.3	   IBM RS/6000	         AIX 3.2.3
 rs6k.aix3.2.5	   IBM RS/6000	         AIX 3.2.5
 sgi.irix4	   SGI 		         IRIX 4.0.x
 sgi.irix5	   SGI     	         IRIX 5.x
 sparc.sunos4	   SUN Sparc	         SunOS 4.1.3
 sparc.solaris2.3  SUN Sparc	         SunOS 5.3
 sparc.solaris2.4  SUN Sparc	         SunOS 5.4
 hp.hpux9	   HP9000 700/800        HP-UX 9.x
 alpha.osf-v3	   DEC Alpha	         OSF/1 V3.x
 ultrix.4.3        DEC station           Ultrix 4.3
 fat3.next3   	   HP-PA,NeXT,i386       NeXTSTEP 3.x (X req.!)
 i386.sco	   PC, i386		 SCO 
 i386.sco5	   PC, i386		 SCO Open Server 5
 i386.linux	   PC, i386	         Linux
 i386.linux_dyna   PC, i386	         Linux (libXm req.)

To obtain the binary distribution please download the compressed tar file
for your platform and then unpack it. For example for IRIX 5 download
a file asWedit-1.1.1-sgi.irix5.tar.Z. To unpack it you can use the
following:
	zcat asWedit-1.1.1-sgi.irix5.tar.Z | tar xvf -

(the distribution will be placed into asWedit-1.1.1 directory).

If you want to use Emacs bindings get the following file as well:
	emacs-mode-asWedit-1.1.1.tar.Z


License and installation
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When you obtain the software before going any further, please read and
accept the terms in the LICENSE file.

Please read the installation information contained in the INSTALL file.
