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authorrjohnson <rjohnson>1998-03-26 14:45:59 (GMT)
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+'\"
+'\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\"
+'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
+'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
+'\"
+'\" SCCS: @(#) eval.n 1.5 96/03/25 20:12:53
+'\"
+.so man.macros
+.TH eval n "" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
+.BS
+'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
+.SH NAME
+eval \- Evaluate a Tcl script
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBeval \fIarg \fR?\fIarg ...\fR?
+.BE
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+\fBEval\fR takes one or more arguments, which together comprise a Tcl
+script containing one or more commands.
+\fBEval\fR concatenates all its arguments in the same
+fashion as the \fBconcat\fR command, passes the concatenated string to the
+Tcl interpreter recursively, and returns the result of that
+evaluation (or any error generated by it).
+
+.SH KEYWORDS
+concatenate, evaluate, script