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diff --git a/contrib/tcl/README b/contrib/tcl/README index 640f075d2ba1..13eed9c3f414 100644 --- a/contrib/tcl/README +++ b/contrib/tcl/README @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ Tcl -SCCS: @(#) README 1.49 97/08/14 08:47:31 +SCCS: @(#) README 1.52 97/11/20 12:43:16 1. Introduction --------------- This directory and its descendants contain the sources and documentation for Tcl, an embeddable scripting language. The information here -corresponds to release 8.0. Tcl 8.0 is a major new release that replaces -the core of the interpreter with an on-the-fly bytecode compiler to -improve execution speed. It also includes several other new features -such as namespaces and binary I/O, plus many bug fixes. The compiler -introduces a few incompatibilities that may affect existing Tcl scripts; -the incompatibilities are relatively obscure but may require -modifications to some old scripts before they can run with this version. -The compiler introduces many new C-level APIs, but the old APIs are -still supported. See below for more details. +corresponds to release 8.0p2, which is the second patch update for Tcl +8.0. Tcl 8.0 is a major new release that replaces the core of the +interpreter with an on-the-fly bytecode compiler to improve execution +speed. It also includes several other new features such as namespaces +and binary I/O, plus many bug fixes. The compiler introduces a few +incompatibilities that may affect existing Tcl scripts; the +incompatibilities are relatively obscure but may require modifications +to some old scripts before they can run with this version. The compiler +introduces many new C-level APIs, but the old APIs are still supported. +See below for more details. This patch release fixes various bugs in +Tcl 8.0; there are no feature changes relative to Tcl 8.0. 2. Documentation ---------------- @@ -23,12 +25,12 @@ still supported. See below for more details. The best way to get started with Tcl is to read one of the introductory books on Tcl: + Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, 2nd Edition, by Brent Welch, + Prentice-Hall, 1997, ISBN 0-13-616830-2 + Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, by John Ousterhout, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63337-X - Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, by Brent Welch, - Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-182007-9 - Exploring Expect, by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-090-2 @@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ Before trying to compile Tcl you should do the following things: without changing any features, so you should normally use the latest patch release for the version of Tcl that you want. Patch releases are available in two forms. A file like - tcl8.0p1.tar.Z is a complete release for patch level 1 of Tcl + tcl8.0p2.tar.Z is a complete release for patch level 2 of Tcl version 8.0. If there is a file with a higher patch level than this release, just fetch the file with the highest patch level and use it. |