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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ README: Tcl
Tcl is maintained, enhanced, and distributed freely as a
service to the Tcl community by Scriptics Corporation.
-RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.16 1999/04/16 00:46:29 stanton Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.17 1999/04/21 21:50:22 rjohnson Exp $
Contents
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@@ -31,20 +31,16 @@ variety of web-related tasks and for creating powerful command
languages for applications.
This directory contains the sources and documentation for Tcl. The
-information here corresponds to release 8.1b3, which is the third
-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.
+information here corresponds to release 8.1.0.
Tcl 8.1 includes four 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, support for multithreading, and a new
-message catalog package. For details on features, incompatibilities, and
-potential problems with this release, see the Tcl/Tk 8.1 Web page at
-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.
+which surpass the features of Perl, support for multithreading, and a
+new message catalog package. For details on features,
+incompatibilities, and potential problems with this release, see the
+Tcl/Tk 8.1 Web page at 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.
Tcl is a freely available open source package. You can do virtually
anything you like with it, such as modifying it, redistributing it,