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+<H1>Dos port of Tcl</h1>
+
+This is port of <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl</a> programming
+language for DOS.
+<p>
+It is based on non-yet released 8.5 version of Tcl.
+<p>
+Port is almost fully-functional with one notable exception - there is no
+support for running external programs from Tcl script - i.e. <b>exec</b>
+command and <b>open "|</b><i>command</i><b>"</b> do not work.
+<p>
+It is possible to implement most of <b>exec</b> functionality (except
+background execution and event-driven pipes) under DOS, but I haven't
+yet found time to do it.
+<p>
+Port includes Waterloo TCP library, so <b>socket</b> command does work
+if you have suitable packet driver on your system.
+<p>
+Dynamic loading <i>should work</i> because DJGPP 2.05 implements
+<b>dlopen</b> function, but is not tested much.
+<p>
+Ck interfaces do not support mouse. It is limitation of <a
+href="http://pdcurses.sf.net">PDCurses toolkit</a>.
+<h2>Runtime package</h2>
+<A
+href="http://ftp.45.free.net/pub/tcl/dos/tcldos85.zip">tcldos85.zip</a>
+Includes two executables - tclsh.exe and cwsh.exe, neccessary script
+libraries and manual pages. You need CWSDPMI.EXE to run executables and
+DJGPP man program to view documentation.
+<H2>Development package</H2>
+(offline now) Includes libraries and header files, neccessary to build
+custom Tcl shells and extensions using DJGPP C compiler.
+Script libraries from runtime packages
+are requied to run build executables.
+<h2>Sources</h2>
+Sources of DOS-specific parts of Tcl can be found on
+<a href="http://www.sf.net/projects/tcl">Tcl sourceforge CVS
+repository</A> in the contrib/djgpp directory.
+<p>
+Sources of Ck toolkit are <a href="ck.html">available</a> on this site.
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