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Tcl/Tk 8.2 is here

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[ Thanks to Bart
Seghers for this report. ]

Tcl/Tk 8.2 is the latest version of Tcl/Tk. We’ve added a number
of features this year that make Tcl the pre-eminent scripting
language for enterprise applications. These are described on our
What’s
New page.

New Tcl/Tk 8.2 Features

The new features in Tcl/Tk 8.2 include:

  • First implementation of Tcl Extension Architecture (TEA)
  • Trf patch for stacked I/O channels, which allows the SSL and
    other channel extensions to work;
  • DDE patch that provides the poke command
  • New procedures for manipulating strings that offer substantial
    performance improvements
  • Tcl test harness is now a loadable package

Supported Platforms

Tcl/Tk 8.2 is compatible with most releases of the following
operating systems:

  • Windows 95 and 98
  • Windows NT
  • Solaris and SunOS
  • Linux
  • HP-UX
  • SGI
  • IRIX
  • Digital Unix
  • AIX
  • SCO Unix
  • NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi
  • Most other Unix-like operating
    systems
  • Macintosh (68K and Power Mac)

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