
*** Tcl <-> Binary/C struct   package ***  release 1.0 !
(c) 1994/1995/1996 Observatoire de Paris  - see LICENSE

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For a good overview and documentation see the new 
doc/libtclbin.dvi or doc/libtclbin.ps files
and then the man page doc/TclBin.n (and .ps) 
You can also look at the BLURB file
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Tclbin package was developed nearly two year ago here and is under
heavy use. Note that support that I can give for it right now 
is limited (though I think that with the available documentation it
should be manageable) (for instance we have extended this package to
have a "typed" binary object which is a Matrix... lots of conversions
between array types etc...)

Feel free to try it and use it, and give me feed back, bug reports,
suggestions,...etc... Though I can't promise, I'll also try
to answer questions and fix problems asap...
(mail to dl@hplyot.obspm.fr)

Please read the doc/libtclbin.ps and man pages. The new tests/ dir
might give tcl examples/hints too. (Don't forget to run "make test")
If the C API is a concern, have a look at the cdoc/* man
pages. Looking at the bindata.c and the examples (*.c) might be
interesting too.

This release works with the new tcl7.5, it features the
binary access as a loadable module (see INSTALL). There was 6 non
public beta releases before this one and 6 public release of earlier
versions so I think its pretty stable now.

I switched to GNU autoconf/configure so it should now compile out of
the box almost everywhere Tcl compiled... Send feedback if it is not
the case ! (see INSTALL)

The examples/ directory includes several applications, including
a simple http url fetcher (geturl) an (anonymous) HTTP WWW
proxy using.

Laurent Demailly  - dl@hplyot.obspm.fr -  http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/~dl/

Ps :
+ You can also subscribe to the "tclbin" list by sending 
 "subscribe tclbin your name" as the mail body of a mail sent to
 listserv@hplyot.obspm.fr (for me it was :
 echo "subscribe tclbin Laurent Demailly" | mail listserv@hplyot.obspm.fr )
+ You might have a look from times to time on
  http://hplyot.obspm.fr/~dl/tclbin.html
  for uptodate infos.
