WSCRAWL 2.01
(multi-display, multi-user, communications program)
by Brian Wilson, brianw@apple.com
version: 10/26/92
What "wscrawl 2.0 " is:
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The word "wscrawl" stands for "window-scrawl". The user may think of
wscrawl 2.0 as a paint program shared by any number of people at the same time.
When wscrawl is run, it opens up a separate window on each participant's
display. From that point onward, each participant sees the actions and ideas
of every other participant as they occur. Each individual may simply watch,
or participate at any moment. Any individual may exit out of the session at
any time without affecting the other participants.
Wscrawl 2.0 is also a useful stand alone paint program for X-Windows. It
reads and saves files in multiple formats such as greyscale postscript, PPM,
xwd, and X-Windows bitmap. It includes a fatbits editor for detailed work,
good color support, and more.
If you want to run wscrawl, but don't have the Motif libriaries:
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Terry Myerson has taken the time and effort to compile wscrawl on
several different platforms and make the executables available via annonymous
ftp. To run wscrawl (including the online manual), all you need is exactly
one executable, which can be found for SGI, Sun Sparc, IBM, and HP on
the machine 128.109.178.23 in pub/wscrawl. The names are self explanitory.
Just log in as user "ftp", password "ftp", and remember to switch to binary
transfer mode (by typing "bin") so the file isn't corrupted.
Comments on Porting wscrawl to your machine:
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You will need the Motif 1.1 libraries to compile wscrawl 2.0. If you
look at the Makefile included with this distribution, there are three lines
that start INCLUDES=, CFLAGS=, and LIBS=. If you have an HP workstation, or
an SGI workstation, you can set these like:
INCLUDES = $(HP_INCLUDES)
CFLAGS = $(HP_CFLAGS)
LIBS = $(HP_LIBS)
...or...
INCLUDES = $(SGI_INCLUDES)
CFLAGS = $(SGI_CFLAGS)
LIBS = $(SGI_LIBS)
And wscrawl should compile right up. If you successfully port wscrawl to
any other architectures or had trouble on these architectures, email me and
let me know any source file changes you had to make, and any compile options
you had to use. I will roll these changes into wscrawl, and post a patch so
that others can get it compiled.
Please send me any interesting enhancements you make to wscrawl.
Send questions, comments, bug reports to:
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Brian Wilson
brianw@apple.com
