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                      3: by John Ousterhout
                      4: University of California at Berkeley
                      5: 
                      6: This directory contains the sources for Tcl, an embeddable tool command
                      7: language.  For an introduction to the facilities provided by Tcl, see
                      8: the paper ``Tcl:  An Embeddable Command Language'', in the Proceedings
                      9: of the 1990 Winter USENIX Conference.  A copy of that paper is included
                     10: in this directory in Postcript form:  it's in the file "usenix.ps".
                     11: 
                     12: This file assumes that you have received a Tcl distribution and are going
                     13: to use Tcl on a UNIX system;  if you're running under Sprite at Berkeley,
                     14: then some of the notes here may be incorrect.
                     15: 
                     16: The documentation for Tcl is present in this directory as a set of
                     17: files with ".man" extensions.  The file "Tcl.man" gives an overall
                     18: description of the Tcl language and facilities, and the other ".man
                     19: files describe the library procedures that Tcl provides for tools to use.
                     20: Read the "Tcl" man page first.  To print any of the man pages, use a
                     21: command like
                     22: 
                     23:                ditroff <file>
                     24: 
                     25: where <page> is the name of the man page you'd like to print.  Don't
                     26: specifiy any macros.
                     27: 
                     28: Type "make" to generate the Tcl library, and type "make tclTest" to
                     29: create a simple test program that you can use to try out the Tcl facilities.
                     30: TclTest is just a main-program sandwich around the Tcl library.  It reads
                     31: standard input until it reaches the end of a line where parentheses and
                     32: backslashes are balanced, then sends everything it's read to the Tcl
                     33: interpreter.  When the Tcl interpreter returns, tclTest prints the return
                     34: value or error message.  TclTest defines a few other additional commands
                     35: most notably:
                     36: 
                     37:                echo arg arg ...
                     38: 
                     39: The "echo" command prints its arguments on standard output, separated by
                     40: spaces.
                     41: 
                     42: There is a test suite for Tcl in the subdirectory "tests".  Read the
                     43: README file in that directory for more information on how to use it.
                     44: 
                     45: The file "changes" describes recent changes that have been made to Tcl.
                     46: If this isn't your first Tcl release, you should probably look through
                     47: "changes" to see what's changed.  If the major release number has changed,
                     48: i.e. from 2.x to 3.x, it means that there have been changes that aren't
                     49: backward-compatible.
                     50: 
                     51: I can't promise to provide a lot of help to people trying to use Tcl, but
                     52: I am interested in hearing about bugs or suggestions for improvements.
                     53: Send them to me at "[email protected]".

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