Catcher 1.0 Released

[Chuck Musciano]

Catcher is a tool that allows you to build windowed tools that can catch
drag and drop files dragged from other windowed tools.  Catcher runs under
either X11r4 or Sun's OpenWindows 2.0.  In either case, you'll need at
least one tool which allows dragging (like Sun's mailtool or filemgr) from
which to drag files.

You use a little scripting language to specify the windowed interface to
an existing command.  For example, you can build a drag and drop interface
to cc.  Gadgets in the window let you set optimization levels and link
libraries.  When you drop a file on the tool, cc is run with your options,
and the file is compiled.  This general mechanism opens up a world of new
commands for those not familiar for Unix.  Sample tools included with
catcher include drag and drop interfaces to sort, cc, and enscript.

Catcher comes complete with a 24 page User Guide, which you can print on a
PostScript printer.  If you cannot print the manual, let me know and I'll
see about having some copies made for distribution.

Chuck Musciano				ARPA  : chuck at trantor.harris-atd.com
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