jstools version 4.0/4.0

This is the fifth release of several wish-based tools:

  jabbrevs - an abbreviation manager (used by jedit)
  jbrowser - a configurable directory browser
  jdoc - a hypertext help viewer (a rewrite of jhelp)
  jedit - an extensible multi-mode text editor
  jmore - a multi-window file viewer
  jprefs - a preferences panel

New with this version are some scripts intended to be used from shell 
scripts, window manager configuration files, etc:

  jalert - display an alert panel
  jcolname - prompt for a colour name
  jcolrgb - prompt for a colour by RGB values
  jconfirm - ask user for confirmation
  jfs - allow user to select a file
  jprompt - ask user to supply a string

All come with extensive documentation, accessible through the jdoc 
command and also translated into HTML.

The old jhelp application (the precursor of jdoc) is no longer included.

There are also a number of libraries, which you can use in your own
applications.  These are described in the file
"jstools-tk4.0v4.0.LIBRARIES".

The jstools distribution also contains pre-release, unsupported, or
otherwise not-ready-for-prime-time copies of:

  jcalendar - a rudimentary appointment calender, (marginally) useful
    for printing pretty month-long calendars with your appointments from
    `xcal' or `xcalendar'
  jhotlist - a tool to manage NCSA Mosaic (version 2.4 or earlier) 
    hotlists (broken under Tk 4.0, and not usable or useful with
    current versions of Mosaic)
  jlaunchpad - a menu of applications and remote hosts,
    similar to SGI's toolchest (broken under Tk 4.0)
  jmsgs - a graphical analogue to the Berkeley msgs(1) command
  jnewbrowser - a preview of the appearance of the next version of jbrowser
  jpeople - an address-list and email alias manager
  jperson - a command-line interface to the jpeople database
  
You must have installed Tcl and the Tk toolkit in order to use these
applications.  They have been tested under version 4.0 of Tk.  (They
have also been lightly tested with 3.6.)  Tcl and Tk are available via
anonymous ftp from ftp.smli.com in the /pub/tcl directory.

Jay Sekora
<js@aq.org>
1995.11.09