Alpha8 8.0b1 Release Announcement
Feb 13, 2002

The Alpha-Cabal is pleased to announce the first public beta release of
Alpha8, the next generation of the venerable Alpha text editor. We are a
small group of Alpha’s users who have taken over its development from the
original author P.Keleher.

Alpha8 contains many changes & fixes to the core Alpha application; e.g.
Tcl 8.3.4 is now used internally, which results in large speedups for many
complex operations.

As this is a beta release, it contains known bugs and may crash. Testers
are encouraged to submit bug reports on any problems they encounter.

An archive containing Alpha8 8.0b1 and the AlphaTcl 7.5 library is
available for download at
ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/Alpha8-8.0b1.sea.bin (5.2Mb)

For more information and other download options please visit
http://alphatcl.sourceforge.net/

AlphaX – a MacOS X native version of Alpha8 – is currently in private alpha
testing.

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AlphaTcl 7.5 Release Announcement
Feb 13, 2002

The AlphaTcl community is pleased to announce the final release of
AlphaTcl 7.5; the extensible, open-source, platform independent
script library driving the Alpha* suite of text editors:
* Alpha7 (MacOS 9)
* Alpha8 (MacOS 9, in public beta testing)
* AlphaTk (Windows & UNIX)
* AlphaX (MacOS X, in private alpha testing)

AlphaTcl contains very popular HTML & LaTeX syntax coloring and editing
modes as well as modes for C, Perl, Tcl, Fortran and much more. AlphaTcl
and all its standard modes, menus and packages contain some 170000 lines of
code!

We believe that AlphaTcl 7.5 contains fewer bugs than previous releases, so
all users are recommended to upgrade.

An archive containing AlphaTcl 7.5 and the Alpha7 application is available
for download at
ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu//pub/alpha/Alpha7.5.sea.bin (4.9Mb)

For more information and other download options please visit
http://alphatcl.sourceforge.net/