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Welcome to the August homepage! August is a free html editor for the UNIX platform. It's a non-wysiwyg editor - like Aswedit or Hotdog. It's written with the Tcl/TK scripting language and graphical toolkit. It's distributed as a single tcl script, which means that if you know Tcl/Tk you can very easily customize August yourself. It is currently in Beta, but these have been reasonably stable and bug free so far. I'm not a professional programmer, in fact August is my first programming project, and if you take a look at the code I think that will show...

Screenshots

Main window

Insert image dialog

Options dialog


News

2001-04-16 August 0.63b released. 2001-03-25 Updated "Plans and goals" section of the website. 2000-10-31 August 0.62b released. 2000-07-30 August 0.61b released. 2000-06-22 August 0.60b released. 2000-05-21 August 0.53 released. 2000-01-12 August 0.52 released. 1999-11-30 August 0.50 released. 1999-11-27 Another site update. 1999-11-15 Updated this site. 1999-09-12 August 0.42 released + some additions to this site. 1999-08-08 August 0.40 released. 1999-07-18 August 0.37 released. 1999-05-23 August 0.35 released. 1999-05-09 August 0.30 released. 1999-05-02 Updated this site with some info. about future developments. 1999-03-14 August 0.27 released.

Comments, contributions and bug reports...

...send them to: jb@gote{remove_this_crap_including_the _curly_braces_to_get_email_adress}borg.bostream.se

August documents

Installation

Latest readme.txt (including changelog)

GPL license

Plans and goals for the development of August

Greek article about SHTML version of August

Download

Wrapped executable
(file is larger, approx. 700 kb, but this version is faster and doesn't need Tcl/Tk installed on your system):
No wrapped version available right now.

Standard Tcl script (source) distribution
(smaller file to download, Tcl/Tk 8.0 or better must be installed on your system, will run a bit slower):
august0.63b.src.tar.gz

NOTE:
If you're upgrading to August 0.61b or newer from an older version you may have to delete or edit the "Augustoptions.tcl" file that resides in the ~/.August directory. The format of this file has changed a bit; a correct line in this file now looks like this:

set August(tpldialog) {yes}

Before it looked like this:

set August(tpldialog) "yes"

If you don't do this you may get a message like this when you try to run august:

"Error in startup script: quoted string doesn't terminate properly [...]"

NOTE:
If you have been running August 0.42, you'd better take a look at the hidden .August subdirectory in your home directory. This particular release creates a lot of buffer files that isn't erased when August is shut down, so there may be large number of files there. Just do "rm *.bf" and they are gone. Hint: Don't do this when August is running!

Tcl/Tk links

Eric Foster-Johnson - author of the book "Graphical applications with Tcl & Tk" that taught me a lot about Tcl/Tk. His site has a good introduction to the language.

Tcl information and links - a good site with lots of useful links.

Scriptics - a company founded by the creator of Tcl/Tk - John Ousterhout. Sells professional development tools etc.

Html links

Barebones guide to HTML - quick guide to HTML 3.2.

Yahoo links to html guides and tutorials. - all the links you need!

Interesting software

Linux Applications - find and review Linux applications on this site.

Tkftp - a tk based ftp program.

TkImgMap - a program for creating html imagemaps.

Image Magick - image editing software.

The Gimp - very powerful image editing software.

TkWorld - GUI for Linux/Unix commands.

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