# Tcl7.5

Library, headers and interpreter for an embeddable extensible Tool Command Language.

Contributed by
  Mike Hopkirk (hops)
Obtained from
  Web - http://www.sunlabs.com/research/tcl
  Ftp: - ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl
Author(s)
  John Ousterhout (john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com) and others
Restrictions
  Berkeley Copyright - See license file

## Description

Tcl is a library that implements a simple embeddable and extensible Command Language. This distribution also contains the binary for an interpreter that uses that library. This is version 7.5 built 14-Jun-96. This distribution is modified from the std in that it uses a script to build and install both static and shared libraries and interpreters that use them. See skunkNotes

Productivity
  Very Useful
Safety
  Examined code + Used and extended it
Work Planned
  Various extensions
Documentation
  Man Pages - these should be in available with this package but they're not
  - try the Man pages on the Tcl Home Page
Other Info
  http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/Tcl.html

## Build Notes

This source is configured to be installed under /usr/local though it seems to autodetect its files if run from elsewhere in a standard tree layout

To build it for a different location, compile with `make prefix=directory` or reconfigure with `./configure --prefix=directory`.

## Installation Notes

The SCO custom packaging was done by Ron Record (rr@sco.com). Against the advice of Those Who Know Better, he (i.e. me) symlinked /usr/local/bin/tclsh and /usr/local/bin/tclsh7.5. This should only prove to be a problem when interpreting older code which conforms to a previous api. Thus far, his (my) testing has uncovered no problems and, in fact, many tcl/tk packages rely on tclsh.

See also :
The original README file, skunkNotes and unix/skunkMake.

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