tkpostage, Copyright 1993 by Dan Wallach inspired by xpostage, by Cliff Herod, Convex Computer Corp, 1989. 128x64 bitmap image (Postage.xbm) used with permission. Release 1.3, November 15, 1993 Release 1.2, October 25, 1993 Release 1.1, October 19, 1993 Release 1.0, October 1, 1993 tkpostage is an xbiff-replacement which tells you how many messages are waiting, and allows you to "quickly" scan the headers -- just click on the window! To give tkpostage a quick shot, just run "wish -f tkpostage" in this directory. To install this package, edit the Makefile, changing the target directories. Then, just type 'make install'. NOTE: TkPostage requires at least Tk3.3 and Tcl7.0, and has been tested to work fine with Tk3.4 and Tcl7.1. Also, if you like to have over 1000 messages in your mail spool, things may start looking ugly on the user interface. To see all the options, check out the man page. ============================================================================= For those who like to compare and contrast Tcl/Tk with Xt programming: tkpostage version 1.0 consumed 211 lines of Tcl. xpostage, which does essentially the same thing, containes 915 lines of C, including 89 lines which is really just the X bitmap. So, the Tcl/Tk version is effectively 1/4 the code, while doing all the same things. Version 1.1 balooned up to 466 lines, adding all the requested features, and now does significantly more than xpostage ever did. ============================================================================= A special thanks to the folks who've given me lots of feedback: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk rjohnson@aic.lockheed.com bay@daacdev1.stx.com lusol@Turkey.CC.Lehigh.EDU wjones@tc.fluke.COM rob@darkstar.cygnus.com welch@xcf.berkeley.edu mcuddy@centric.com fischer@dina.kvl.dk rathkopf@cc.gatech.edu And, of course, thanks to John Ousterhout for creating Tcl/Tk, without which I would never have bothered to write this thing.