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@@ -1,26 +1,24 @@ Tcl -RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.1.2.2 1998/09/24 23:58:14 stanton Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.1.2.3 1998/12/03 02:06:29 welch Exp $ 1. Introduction --------------- -This directory and its descendants contain the sources and documentation -for Tcl, an embeddable scripting language. The information here -constitutes the 8.1a2 release, which is the second alpha release for Tcl -8.1. This release is still in experimental form and is intended for expert -early adopters who are willing to help us find and fix problems. The -release is certain to contain bugs and is not yet feature-complete: we -will probably add new features or change some of the existing features -before the final 8.1 release. Please let us know about any problems you -uncover. +This directory and its descendants contain the sources and +documentation for Tcl, an embeddable scripting language. The +information here constitutes the 8.1b1 release, which is the first beta +release for Tcl 8.1. This release is mostly feature complete but may +have bugs and be missing some minor features. This release is for +early adopters who are willing to help us find and fix problems. +Please let us know about any problems you uncover. Tcl 8.1 includes three major new features: Unicode support (all internal strings are now stored in UTF-8 form), a new regular expression matcher with most of the Perl features, and support for multithreading. For details on features, incompatibilities, and potential problems with this release, see the Tcl/Tk 8.1 Web page at -http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/8.1.html or refer to the "changes" +http://www.scriptics.com/software/8.1.html or refer to the "changes" file in this directory, which contains a historical record of all changes to Tcl. |