don@TUMTUM.CS.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) (06/26/89)
GoodNeWS is now available via anonymous ftp from tumtum.cs.umd.edu (128.8.128.49). Be sure to set binary mode, and get the file "NeWS/GoodNeWS.1.2.DEV.tar.Z". GoodNeWS is a user interface for the NeWS window system, that includes a wonderful object oriented drawing tool, a DVI previewer that lets you preview LaTeX documents (you can include drawings made with the drawing tool in your LaTeX documents), a terminal emulator, a performance monitor, a scrabble game, a chess position editor, and more! GoodNeWS will be distributed on the Sun Users Group contributed software tape. I'm including some of the informative blurbs that are in the GoodNeWS directory. -Don README: % FILE: README by Arthur van Hoff, (c)1989 Turing Institute Hi there, Here is version 1.2 of GoodNeWS. Version 1.2 was developed to improve the portability of the GoodNeWS system. The major difference with version 1.1 is that GoodNeWS now runs under the original NeWS1.1 environment. If there are any problems please feel free to contact me at home or at work (I spent 75% of my time in Holland). Hope you like it.... Arthur van Hoff The Turing Institute George House 36 North Hannover street G1 2AD Glasgow UK Please E-mail bug reports to: arthur@turing.ac.uk *** IMPORTANT *** To run GoodNeWS 1.2 you should set your NEWSHOME environment variable to the NeWS1.1 directory. You should also have a GNHOME variable set to the GoodNeWS home directory (this directory). To enter GoodNeWS mode at startup you should copy (or link) the file ${GNHOME}/user.ps to your home directory. This will cause GoodNeWS to be loaded at startup and the RootMenu will be set the the GoodNeWS rootmenu. Remember to add ${GNHOME}/bin directory to your PATH. If you are using different machines, make sure that your .login sets your path to use the appropriate bin.MACHINE directory! The default is to use bin, which is linked to bin.SUN3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The development of GoodNeWS and HyperNeWS has been funded by: The Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland. The Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-85-G-0243. The National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada. HYPERNEWS: *** HyperNeWS 1.2 is NOT included in this release of GoodNeWS 1.2 *** GoodNeWS version 1.2 was developed using an invalid copy of NeWS1.1. We have now ported it to the release version of NeWS1.1. However, since a new (and very nasty) bug was introduced to the newsserver, we were not able to port HyperNeWS1.2 before the release of GoodNeWS1.2. HyperNeWS1.2 will become available under the same conditions as GoodNeWS1.2 in the near future (within the next months). Arthur van Hoff, 7 June 1989. P.S: HyperNeWS is a HyperCard like interface development tool.
frode@m2cs.uu.no (Frode Odegard) (06/29/89)
I installed it yesterday...one of the real goodies is something called "Pete's Movie"...the terminal window is quite fast, too! I guess I will have to learn to play Scrabble, now (sic! Not as popular here in Norway) - Frode PS: Has anyone heard of a release date for HyperNeWS ? -- _____________________________________________________________________ Frode L. Odegard, Modula-2 CASE Systems, Maridalsveien 139, N-0461 OSLO 4, NORWAY. Email: frode@m2cs.uu.no. For a full resume send mail to info@m2cs.uu.no (message must contain the command "resume frode").