ulis, 2003-10-26. To answer a recurrent question.
I retrieved an old page from c.l.t (dated 1997).
Mike Lynn <[email protected]> gracfully told us:
->Where can I find a version of TCL for DOS? ->I am writing an embedded system in MSC. ->Source or library binaries will do.
Tcl FAQ writes: C. INTEL DOS-like systems
Numerous ports to DOS are available. One unsupported port to
MS-DOS of Tcl and Extended Tcl V6.0a, done by <URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Karl Lehenbauer), is available on <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/dostcl.zoo > for binaries and <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/dostcl60.zoo > for source.
A port of Tcl V6.2 to MS-DOS was done by
<URL:mailto:[email protected] > (John Martin) and is available via FTP from <URL:ftp://cajal.uoregon.edu/pub/tcl.dos.port/ > and <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/tcl62.dos.tar.Z >.
A source code only port of Tcl V6.7 to MS-DOS, done by
<URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Peter Sprenger), is available from him, somewhere on wuarchive.wustl.edu or as <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/tcl67dos.zip >.
A port of Tcl, version 7.3, to MS-DOS, done by
<URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Tom Poindexter), is available as <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/mstcl73e.zip > and <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/mstcl73s.zip >. This also includes TclX 7.3a and Tk ported to Desqview/X libraries.
A port of Tcl, V6.1 ?, done by unknown, to MS-DOS Windows
V 3.1 ?, is available as binary at <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/w_tclbin.zip > and as source at <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/w_tclsrc.zip >.
A package to take a Tcl source distribution and port it cleanly
to MS-DOS, so that it can be compiled has been written by <URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Bob Yennaco). It is available as <URL:ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/tcl2dos.sh.gz >
An MS-DOS Windows DLL instance of Tcl 6.2 was generated by
<URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Ugo Cei). Contact him for more details.
A Windows DLL was made by <URL:mailto:[email protected]>
(Ekkehard Beier) by slightly modifying a DOS 6.2 Tcl port. There are still problems with the system/WinExec command. A very rudimentary Debugger User Interface using Borland's Classlib is part of the zip-file, too. The source was used also with BC3.1++/AF on MS W3.1. You can get a copy from <URL:ftp://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/pub/DOS/wintcl.zip > via anonymous ftp. Unfortunately Ekki doesn't have time currently to finish the Windows port and user Interface.
<URL:mailto:[email protected]> (Toshihiko Haga) and
<URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Shigeaki Miyata) announced twin (tcl/tk for MS-Windows), which does not support exec and send, but supports a -bitmap for Windows .bmp files. A few other modifications or special exceptions are noted. This package's files can be found at <URL:ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/{twinesrc,twinebin}.zip > and <URL:ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/{twinesrc,twinebin}.doc >.
<URL:mailto:[email protected]> (Professor Ken K. Kubota) has
announced a port of Tcl 7.3 and Tk3.6a to MS DOS Windows using Borland C++ 4.0. Fetch the README files from the ftp sites <URL:ftp://ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/tk-win/{tkwinbin,tkwin,fedloc}.zip > for more information.
Omar Stanford <URL:mailto:[email protected]> reported in
March of 1994 that he had almost completed his port of Tcl 7.3 to MS-Windows 3.1. He had incorporated extensions for networking (including NetWare), Windows Sockets, and many Windows API functions. He also was working on a facility for dynamically allocating commands to the Tcl environment. If there are other extensions that one would like to see under Windows 3.1, or if you are interested in beta testing, drop him a line.
Also, Simon Kenyon <URL:mailto:[email protected]> of the
Information Technology Centre, Dublin, IRELAND, mentions that they are starting to port Tk to MS-Windows. There is a mailing list (see "tcl-faq/part2") for folk who are interested.
Steve Furr <URL:mailto:[email protected]> reports getting Tcl ported to QNX
without a lot of trouble. He mentions that QNX users who have the beta X should have gotten a CD-ROM update with Tcl and Tk on the CD.
A port of Tcl 7.3, except for glob or command pipelines, to OS/2 2.x
using C Set++ has been done by <URL:mailto:[email protected] > (Bud Bach). As of this date, I have no leads on anyone porting Tk to any version of OS/2. There are some OS/2 X client support kits available for purchase, which might make it easier to port Tk.
Also (see "tcl-faq/part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog,
for the latest port locations.
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