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Tcl
-RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.10 1998/09/14 18:39:43 stanton Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.11 1998/10/13 19:03:52 escoffon Exp $
1. Introduction
---------------
This directory and its descendants contain the sources and documentation
for Tcl, an embeddable scripting language. The information here
-corresponds to release 8.0.3, which is the third patch update for Tcl
+corresponds to release 8.0.4, which is the fourth patch update for Tcl
8.0. This patch provides compatibility with [incr Tcl] 3.0.
Tcl 8.0 is a major new release that replaces the core of the
interpreter with an on-the-fly bytecode compiler to improve execution
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Before trying to compile Tcl you should do the following things:
without changing any features, so you should normally use the
latest patch release for the version of Tcl that you want.
Patch releases are available in two forms. A file like
- tcl8.0.3.tar.Z is a complete release for patch level 3 of Tcl
+ tcl8.0.4.tar.Z is a complete release for patch level 4 of Tcl
version 8.0. If there is a file with a higher patch level than
this release, just fetch the file with the highest patch level
and use it.
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ and Data Kinetics (education@dkl.com).
You can test the current version of Tcl by examining the
tcl_version and tcl_patchLevel variables. The tcl_patchLevel
-variable follows the naming rules outlined below (e.g., 8.0.3).
+variable follows the naming rules outlined below (e.g., 8.0.4).
The tcl_version just has the major.minor numbers in it (e.g., 8.0)
Each Tcl release is identified by two numbers separated by a dot, e.g.
@@ -396,5 +396,5 @@ compatible with the base release from which it is derived (e.g. Tcl
7.6), and you should normally use the highest available patch release.
As of 8.0.3, the patch releases use a second . instead of 'p'. So, the
-8.0 release went to 8.0p1, 8.0p2, and 8.0.3. The alphas and betas will
-still use the 'a' and 'b' letters in their tcl_patchLevel.
+8.0 release went to 8.0p1, 8.0p2, 8.0.3, and 8.0.4. The alphas and betas
+will still use the 'a' and 'b' letters in their tcl_patchLevel.