[etoys-dev] [SVN][607] Edits to to-go README as per list discussion

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Repository: http://etoys.squeak.org/svn

Revision: 607
Author:   bf
Date:     2010-10-02 13:43:02 +0000 (Sat, 02 Oct 2010)
Log Message:
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Edits to to-go README as per list discussion

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--- trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt	2010-10-01 13:41:14 UTC (rev 606)
+++ trunk/VM/to-go/README.txt	2010-10-02 13:43:02 UTC (rev 607)
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 HOW TO RUN ETOYS-TO-GO
 
-Macintosh: double-click "Etoys To Go"
+Linux: start etoys.sh
 
-Linux: double-click etoys.sh
+Windows: start Etoys.exe
 
-Windows: double-click Etoys.exe
+Macintosh: start "Etoys To Go"
 
 
 USING ETOYS-TO-GO
 
-The main purpose of Etoys-To-Go is for putting it on a USB thumb drive. It
-does not require to install anything on a machine's hard disk. All the files
-are in one directory, including the Etoys projects you save. That makes it
-easy to take transport projects e.g. between home and school.
+The main purpose of Etoys-To-Go is for putting it on a USB thumb drive.  It
+does not require to install anything on a machine's hard disk.  All the files
+are in one directory, including the Etoys projects you save.  That makes it
+easy to transport projects e.g. between home and school.
 
 You can also drag Etoys-To-Go.app to your desktop and use it from there.
-This is useful if for example your institution's policy does not allow to
-install applications. If you can, it still is better to use the installer
-version because that will also install the Web Browser Plugin so you can
-see Etoys projects on the web without having to download them.
- 
+This is useful if, for example, your institution's policy does not allow to
+install applications.  If you can, it still is better to use the installer
+version because that will also install the Web Browser Plugin.  This enables
+using Etoys projects on the web without having to download them.
 
-TRIVIA
 
+ABOUT
+
 The directory structure for packaging Squeak applications for multiple
 platforms (such as Etoys-To-Go) was developed in 2006 by Bert Freudenberg
-while working on impara's "Plopp" drawing tool for kids. It won the 2006
-ESUG Smalltalk Technology Innovation Award. The trick is in (ab)-using
-the Macintosh bundle structure to by adding Virtual Machines for other
-platforms like Windows and Linux. The image and other files are shared
-between all platforms.
+while working on impara's "Plopp" drawing tool for kids.  It won the 2006
+ESUG Smalltalk Technology Innovation Award.  The trick is in (ab)-using
+the Macintosh .app bundle structure by adding Virtual Machines for other
+platforms like Windows and Linux.  The image and other files are shared
+between all platforms.  Many Squeak applications are now packaged using
+this format.  The community adopted the term "OneClick" for it.  The first
+Etoys-To-Go was created for the Etoys 4.0 release in 2009.


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