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authordgp <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>2001-08-06 20:43:05 (GMT)
committerdgp <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>2001-08-06 20:43:05 (GMT)
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* Added note that the tclsh program is frequently
installed with the Tcl version numer as part of the name. [Patch 402725]
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--doc/tclsh.110
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4e2e8b0..03d9af2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2001-08-06 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+ * doc/tclsh.1: Added note that the tclsh program is frequently
+ installed with the Tcl version numer as part of the name.
+ [Patch 402725]
+
* generic/tclPkg.c:
* tests/pkg.test: [package forget] now forgets all of the
package arguments it receives, not stopping when a package is
diff --git a/doc/tclsh.1 b/doc/tclsh.1
index 76d5aaf..e849fac 100644
--- a/doc/tclsh.1
+++ b/doc/tclsh.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tclsh.1,v 1.3 1999/05/13 01:50:13 stanton Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: tclsh.1,v 1.4 2001/08/06 20:43:05 dgp Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH tclsh 1 "" Tcl "Tcl Applications"
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ instead to start up \fBtclsh\fR to reprocess the entire script.
When \fBtclsh\fR starts up, it treats all three lines as comments,
since the backslash at the end of the second line causes the third
line to be treated as part of the comment on the second line.
+.PP
+.VS
+You should note that it is also common practise to install tclsh with
+its version number as part of the name. This has the advantage of
+allowing multiple versions of Tcl to exist on the same system at once,
+but also the disadvantage of making it harder to write scripts that
+start up uniformly across different versions of Tcl.
+.VE
.SH "VARIABLES"
.PP