Scotty v3.0.0 for win32				Aug 2004

        Snapshot Release  14. August 2004



NOTE: 
=====

This is a snapshot version, it is not a release version.  It should be
considered beta and may crash and burn your computer -- you have been
warned.


INSTALLATION:
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Running scotty300-snap20040814.exe will start the installer of Scotty
v3.0.0 for WindowsNT 4.0, WindowsNT 3.51, Windows9x, Win XP and other
versions.  It may work with newer Windows versions, but this is
untested.

Note: This installer is different from the previously used installer,
which included a stand-alone Tk/Tcl installer.

Because Tk/Tcl v8.4 is now required, but the license of the
ActiveState Tk/Tcl binary release sucks, a precompiled Tk/Tcl is
included.  If you have Tk/Tcl installed from a ActiveState
distribution, it may work fine, but it may fail completely.

This version includes a precompiled Tcl 8.4.7 and Tk 8.4.7 and the
installation path is hardcoded to C:\Tcl .

Scotty v3.0.0 contains two packages: Tkined v1.5.0 and Tnm v3.0.0 .

Tkined is a graphical network management station written in Tk/Tcl,
Tnm the network management extension for Tcl.

The installations does not include the spiffy things avail before:
manuals stuff


Tkined can be started by running:

    C:\Tcl\bin\wish84.exe C:\Tcl\bin\tkined150



COPYRIGHT:
==========

See the file license.terms for the copyright of the scotty package.

This binary distribution is maintained by Gaertner Datensysteme Gbr,
Braunschweig, Germany.


Known Problems (taken from the RELNOTES):
=========================================


WindowsNT 4.0 Platform:
-----------------------

Tnm: The icmp.dll returns timing results with a granularity of 
10 ms.

Tnm: The dns module expects a configured DNS-Server entry (or more
than one entry) set in the TCP configuration on the host.  If none is
found, it expects a Server running on the host system.  If no DNS
service is avail, a timeout will occur.  A possible workaround is to
setup a nameserver (eg. the well tested bind release) or to name
explicit a server via the -s option of the dns command.  [Note:
this belongs to Win9x and WinNT 3.51 too.]

Tnm: The returned string for DisplayString formatted is of the format
xx:xx:xx:... instead of the cleartext string.  [Note: This is known to
happen on Windows9x too.]

Tnm/Tkined: After closing the tkined task, sometimes the tclsh84.exe
tools-processes are not terminated correctly (visible in the
task-manager).  [Note: This is known to happen on Windows9x too.]

Tkined: When exiting tkined sometimes a exception is displayed. This
is a pointer to garbled memory within the tk's internal menu structure
and will hopefully vanish with Tcl v8.2 release.  [Note: This is known to
happen on Windows9x too.]

Tkined: A log-window closed via the x-knob in the top-right window-bar
does not pop up again (in opposite of using the log-menu's close item).
[Note: This is known to happen on Windows9x too.]

Installer: With the new installer there is currently no startmenu
entry created.

Un-installer: With the new installer there is no uninstall information
created.


Windows9x Platform:
-------------------

Tnm: Mass sending of icmp-requests is known to fail with an error in
cw3215.dll. The reason is unknown.



General Errors:
---------------

To start tkined you have to run:

    C:\Tcl\bin\wish84.exe C:\Tcl\bin\tkined150 

Well, I'd suggest you create a shortcut.


Have fun.


--
(schoenfr)