Hamlet User's Manual

This documentation is intended for version 2.0 of Hamlet.

Hamlet is a Unix-based X application designed to run as an external viewer for Web browsers such as Netscape. It was conceived as a way to add client-side functionality to Web browsers. Hamlet makes it possible to write HTML documents containing hyperlinks that, when activated,

• send commands to the other X windows on a display,
• copy a set of files and/or directories into the user's home directory,
• run an arbitrary script that has installed on a local file system, and
• reset Hamlet's state.

We have found these simple capabilities extremely useful when creating HTML-based online tutorials. Consult this for examples of HTML documents that exploit Hamlet's capabilities.

This document

• explains how to obtain and install Hamlet,
• describes how to use Hamlet,
• discusses how to create HTML documents that exploit Hamlet,
• discusses problems that you might encounter using Hamlet, and
• lists changes made since the previous version of Hamlet.