CONTACT INFORMATION:

Contact:	Scott Hess
		12901 Upton Avenue South, #326
		Burnsville, MN  55337
Telephone:	(612) 895-1208
Internet:	scott@nic.gac.edu	or	shess@ssesco.com



TickleServices provides a framework upon which new services entries may be
built.  It uses a string-based scripting language to direct execution, which
allows many text-handling services to be written in just one or two lines.
Built-in commands are provided for a number of commonly required functions,
such as prompting the user for input or selecting files in an Open Panel.

As a side effect of the ease of developing and modifying new services,
TickleServices1.02mab includes a library of 79 example services, many of
which implement services that used to require the aforementioned basket of
applets.  These services range from handling archive files to counting words
in text to reformatting C /* ... */ comments.  Beyond the basic utility
these services provide to any user, they are a valuable source of code to
copy and paste for use in new services.

TickleServices1.02mab is a new version of TickleServices ported to and
recompiled under NeXTSTEP3.1.  In the bargain, a couple of minor bugs
have been fixed, and some new services were added, though no really neat
new features were added.  Well, the Lipo.ts services are sort of neat.

TickleServices will likely migrate from here to a more appropriate place on the
archive.  Note that it's a 3.0 commercial program (so on sonata, it would end
in pub/next/3.0/com).  To unarchive TickleServices, use the Workspace Contents
panel, or use the command "zcat TickleServices1.02mab.compressed | tar -xvf -".
If you do not have ftp access, contact Scott Hess and he can send you a copy
via NeXTMail.  If you're the kind to care, the output of running sum(1) on
the file is:

    48090   848 TickleServices1.02mab.compressed