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tkpostage, Copyright (c) 1993-1996 by Dan Wallach <dwallach@cs.princeton.edu>
    inspired by xpostage, by Cliff Herod, Convex Computer Corp, 1989.
    128x64 bitmap image (Postage.xbm) used with permission.

    For complete copyright, see the end of this file.


Release 1.3b, December 27, 1995
Release 1.3a, June 7, 1994
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!  tkpostage is built around the "wish" interpreter of
John Ousterhout's Tcl/Tk system.  You must install "wish" before tkpostage
will run.

To give tkpostage a quick shot, just run "wish -f tkpostage" in this directory.

To install this package, just run "xmkmf" and "make install".  Alternatively,
you can edit Makefile.simple to specify your target directories.

NOTE: TkPostage requires at least Tk3.3 and Tcl7.0, and has been tested
to work fine with later versions through Tk4.0 / Tcl7.4.  TkPostage will
use Tk4.0-specific features if they're available, such as calling the
"beep" function rather than printing ^G's.

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, or check out this
Web page:

    http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dwallach/tkpostage/

=============================================================================
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.
=============================================================================
     Copyright (c) 1993-1996    Dan Wallach
 
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