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asWedit HTML 3 and HTML 2 editor Version 2.0
What
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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
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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 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
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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
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AdvaSoft Ltd
30 Hatch Road, London SW16 4PN, UK.
Release Date
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11 December 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:
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
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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.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
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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
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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
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Andrzej Stochniol
as@advasoft.com