Welcome to... ------------- asWedit HTML 3 and HTML 2 editor Version 2.0 What ---- asWedit is a comprehensive and easy to use HTML 3, HTML 2 and text editor for X Window System and Motif. It offers three independent modes: a plain text editing mode and two context-sensitive modes for authoring HyperText Mark-up Language documents (HTML 3 and HTML 2) as used on the World Wide Web and enterprise networks. HTML features ------------- 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 but modified and extended by us with the more stable new proposals, including the latest IETF drafts (new tables, client-side image maps, form-based file upload and HotJava applets) o full support for all HTML 2 tags and attributes based on the RFC 1866 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 dialogs for selecting relative and absolute URL's o customizable colours for different HTML tags o rich set of entities, including Latin 1, greek and user-defined ones o keyboard shortcuts for the most common HTML tags o user definable, mode dependent, key bindings o filters to convert between Latin 1 characters and their entities (extendible) o support for un-limited number of templates 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 Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Arena or Lynx (interprocess communication is used for Netscape and Mosaic) General features ---------------- o modern graphical user interface (GUI) o multiple editing windows o pop-up menus for mouse-oriented editing and feature's quick access o user customizable toolbars with fly-by hints for icons o comprehensive context sensitive and click-on 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 ------ AdvaSoft Ltd 30 Hatch Road, London SW16 4PN, UK. Release Date ------------ 11 December 1995 Availability ------------ 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: The above site supports all methods of file downloading, i.e. ftp, http, gopher, ftpmail, ... The software is mirrored in US on: and on other archives including the following: Following platforms are supported: file Id System OS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.osf3 DEC Alpha OSF/1 V3.x ultrix.4.4 DEC station Ultrix 4.4 fat3.next3 HP-PA,NeXT,i386 NeXTSTEP 3.x (X req.!) hppa.next3 HP-PA NeXTSTEP 3.x (X req.!) i386.next3 PC, i386 NeXTSTEP 3.x (X req.!) m68k.next3 NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.x (X req.!) i386.sco PC, i386 SCO i386.sco5 PC, i386 SCO Open Server 5 i386.linux PC, i386 Linux 1.1.x (X11R5 req.) i386.linux_dyna PC, i386 Linux 1.1.x (X11R5 + 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-2.0-sgi.irix5.tar.Z. To unpack it you can use the following: zcat asWedit-2.0-sgi.irix5.tar.Z | tar xvf - (the distribution will be placed into asWedit-2.0 directory). If you want to use Emacs bindings get the following file as well: emacs-mode-asWedit-2.0.tar.Z License and installation ------------------------ When you obtain the software please read and accept the terms of the License Aggreement. Please read the installation information contained in the INSTALL file. More information ---------------- More information, including details about ASWedit - the commercial version of asWedit - is available on the AdvaSoft Web site: Commercial information about ASWedit can also be requested by sending E-mail to: info@advasoft.com ----------------- Andrzej Stochniol as@advasoft.com