Tcl-To-Go
Release date: November 22, 1999
An add-on disk for the muLinux system, containing a mix of application programs, all written in Tool Command Language, aka, Tcl (pronounced as tickle.)
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Tcl-To-GoRelease date: November 22, 1999An add-on disk for the muLinux system, containing a mix of application programs, all written in Tool Command Language, aka, Tcl (pronounced as tickle.) |
Download TCL.tgz now!
You probably need to 'Shift-Click' the link to download it!!.
Note TCL.tgz is compressed using bzip2. The '.tgz' extension is used to fool web servers in sending the file as binary.
Tcl-To-Go fits on a single floppy, formatted with 1722 1k blocks. To format such a floppy
use the following command in Linux:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1722
To complete the installation, simply copy TCL.tgz onto your super-formatted floppy:
dd if=TCL.tgz of=/dev/fd0H1722 bs=21k
If you would like to unpack TCL.tgz on your hard disk for inspection, use the muLinux
mu script, or simply
cat TCL.tgz | bzip2 -d | tar xf -
If your Linux system doesn't include the /dev/fd0H1722 device, try building it
with
cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV fd0
Here are some sample screenshots, illustrating some of the applications on Tcl-To-Go
(click on the snapshot thumbnail image for a full 640x480 screen dump.)
| Tcl Development |  |
| Text editing |  |
| Games |  |
| Graphics |  |
| Math |  |
| News and Mail |  |
| Network clients |  |
| Web serving and HTML editing |  |
Plus many other fine programs and utilities not shown.
Compress, compress again, then compress some more. Tcl applications and library files are stored as compressed (gzip) files, even after the Tcl-To-Go floppy is loaded into your muLinux system. Tcl-To-Go modifies Tcl run-time libraries to recognize compressed files, and uncompress them on the fly. Tcl-To-Go fits over six megabytes of Tcl code onto a single super-formatted floppy. This of course includes the Tcl/Tk interpreters, tclsh and wish. When the floppy is installed, its filesystem space is less than 3000 1k blocks.
My thanks goes to all of the folks that created the applications that I'm including on Tcl-To-Go. Please note the authors of each application below.
The application mix of programs may change from release to release. In particular, the current release has some applications that overlap, e.g., tkpaint and impress, dirc and netplug, etc. Please let me know which applications you find most useful.
Documentation: skimpy at best. I've taken the tack that most applications are either intuitive to use, or can be figured out with a minimum of exploration. Therefore, I've sacrificed documentation in favor of providing additional applications. Still, many applications contain their own help systems. Please refer to the original distributions of each application as a way to get more information.
Support: please use the muLinux mailing list for all questions about Tcl-To-Go. Subscribe to the mailing list by sending an email to: mulinux-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk
Tcl-To-Go
Tom Poindexter, tpoindex@nyx.net
1st edition, Nov. 1999
An add-on floppy for muLinux to add a healthy mix of application programs
written in Tcl/Tk. Requires the muLinux X11 add-on, as most Tcl programs
included are X11 based.
muLinux resources:
home page: http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux
mailing list: mulinux-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk
Tcl-To-Go: http://home.worldnet.att.net/~tpoindex/
Documentation:
Little documentation for each application is included. Some applications have
builtin help; check my 'notes' section for each entry. Please refer to
the applications' URL's for additional documentation.
Preference files/directories:
Many application also want to save user preferences into various directories
under $HOME or $USER. Typically, user files are stored as ".files" or
".directories" under "/" or "/root", if running muLinux as a single user.
If you wish to save the applications' preferences, you should make your own
arrangements to save and restore these files during muLinux startup and
shutdown.
Licenses issues:
The majority of the applications included have been written by others, and
are distributed under various license and/or copyrights.
For GPLed applications, refer to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
For BSD & copyrighted applications, see the license & copyright statement in
each application.
Change Log:
Nov. 1999 create initial TCL addon. first release.
Included applications:
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---base tcl/tk
tclsh8.0
wish8.0
description: Tcl/Tk, tclsh & wish interpreters
ver: 8.0.5
license: BSD style
author: John Ousterhout, et.al.
http://www.scriptics.com
tsp hacks:
add proc 'source' to init.tcl: examine file name, if a file
matches *.gz, then use gunzip to unpack source file.
tk.tcl - make mulinux friendly defaults, background color, fonts
gzip all tcl/tk library .tcl files, except init.tcl and tk.tcl
most files in ./bin link to STARTUP.SH, which starts wish and
causes the real program to be sourced from ../lib/bingz
compiled under Redhat 4.2 (libc5)
configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk --enable-shared --disable-symbols
edit makefile to add '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/tcltk/lib' and
'-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/tcltk/lib' when linking shared libs & executables
strip tclsh wish libtcl8.0.5.so libtk8.0.5.so
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---editors
edit
description: Tcl Text Edit, /w macros, ftp/http get & put, multiple files.
author: Dennis Ehlin
ver: http://www.user.tninet.se/~hkc141i
license: BSD style
http://www.user.tninet.se/~hkc141i
tsp hacks:
added exec lines; use TCLTEXTEDIT_LIB for library directory;
copy lib macro files when making $HOME/.tcltextedit/;
use safe interp when evaling command (txt.tcl);
for some reason, edit main program doesn't like most lib .tcl files
to be compressed (?? !!) instead, put all but cfg.tcl inline in
main 'edit' source file.
looks like you should be able to open an http:// url on the
comand line, but doesn't seem to work.
tknotepad:
description: a simple text editor, /w find/replace, hot keys
author: Joe Acosta
ver: 0.7.1
license: Copyright
http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html
tsp hacks:
change exec line to simple 'wish'
vedit:
description: a simple text editor, part of tkapps suite
see: vmail3 (tkapps) under news/mail
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---spreadsheet/calculators/math
tk#
description: spreadsheet
author: Martin Vermeer
ver: 0.3
license: GPL
http://www.netby.net/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/
tsp hacks:
respository and demo files in /usr/tcltk/lib/tk#
ksc
description: RPN-type calculator
author: Ken St-Cyr
ver: 0.16
license: BSD style
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/%7Ekenstcyr/linux.html
tsp hacks:
change exec line to simple 'wish'
change font, avoid bold
surface
description: display three dimensional surface based on z = F(x,y)
author: Eduard Kholyavko
ver: 04091999
license: Copyright
ftp://ft/florin.ru/pub/edik
tsp hacks:
changed exec line
it doesn't fit on VGA X server very well, but too cool not to include!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---network
fireman
description: firewall manager, uses ipfwadm to set policy
author: aRG
ver: 2.0
license: Copyright
http: http://www.tectrip.net/arg/
tsp hacks:
added exec line; changed aux program paths to env(FIREMAN_LIB); changed
[exec date] to use clock command.
changed exec /sbin/ipfwadm to just ipfwadm, ipchains
changed fonts
sockspy
description: examine a TCP conversation, in hex or ascii
author: Tom Poindexter
ver: 1.0
license: BSD style
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html
tsp hacks:
all of it
notes:
command line options: sockspy clientPort serverHost serverPort
clientPort - port to which clients connect
serverHost - machine where real server runs
serverPort - port on which real server listens
e.g. To watch your Telnet session to 'otherhost':
$ sockspy 2000 otherhost 23 &
$ telnet localhost 2000
tkftp
description: graphical FTP client
author: Pascal Jermini
ver: 1.0.2
license: GPL
http://a.trevano.ch/~jermini/tkftp/
tsp hacks:
add exec line; change TKFTP_LIB_DIR to use env(TKFTP_LIB_DIR);
reduce sizes of listboxes to shrink overal size
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---irc/mud
dirc
description: Internet Relay Chat program
author: Kemal Hadimli
ver: 1.5
license: Copyright
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/chat/irc/
tsp hacks:
make main.tcl the dirc command, with exec lines
include all library source inline
change logdir to {} to avoid logging
change nuke array to empty
netplug
description: irc chat, go client, with plugins
author: Laurant Demailly
ver: 0.62
license: Copyright
http://www.demailly.com/~dl/netplug.html
tsp hacks:
cause [source script] to read real file
use NETPLUG_PLUGINS as dir for zero.dat in irc.pli
touch orignal *.pli names so that main prog can find them
mmucl
description: Mark's MUd CLient, Mmucl (pronounced muckle)
author: Mark Patton
ver: 1.2.0
license: GPL
http://idt.net/~tmtr01/mmucl/
tsp hacks:
remove xterm & console interfaces; use interface/tk.tcl as 'mmucl'
main program; replace nice tkinfo help system with ugly xterm (tkinfo
is just too big for mulinux/tcl-to-go)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---web
august
description: HTML editor
author: Johan Bengtsson
ver: 0.42
license: GPL
http://www.lls.se/~johanb/august/
tsp hacks:
changed exec line
neowebscript-sa
description: HTTP web server, with Tcl based scripting
author: George Porter
ver: 1.1
license: Copyright
http: http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript-sa/
tsp hacks:
added exec line; changed conf/httpd.conf to recognize environment
variables to set configuration; changed source location of httpd.conf;
changed index.html to reflect new environment vars.
remove pid file on exit.
notes:
if the server doesn't start up (socket: can't bind to address), you
probably have the muLinux pygmy web server running. either kill
the pygmy server, or start neowebscript-sa with a different port:
$ HTTP_PORT=8000 neowebscript-sa &
then, connect to it with chimera or quark as http://localhost:8000/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---news/mail
vmail3
description: tkapps: vmail3 - mail client (/w pop3) & newsreader, vedit,
vbiff, fm - file manager
author: John Willem van Gulik
ver: 3.2.4 (vmail3 version)
license: GPL
http://infoweb.magi.com/~jvgulik
tsp hacks:
change exec lines
removed: vvac, vquery, showhtml, vshow, vprog, logview, vfile, vdb, vdir
lib/tkapps/lib/config.tk - set smaller fonts; rename some buttons
on mail menu bar to be smaller
change .au files in tkapps/sounds to be tiny
change system.tk - just use plain 'df', not -k for Linux
many hacks to vprocs.tk, news.tk: add pattern matching for list of
newsgroups, remove unsubscribed news groups, numerous bug
fixes; added check reconnect to newsserver
notes:
use vmail3 for both email and newsreader; to set a POP3 mailbox, use
userid@pophost as the mailbox name, where 'userid' is your POP3
user id, and 'pophost' is your POP3 host machine.
news can be a little cranky, e.g. if you select 'show all messages' with an open newsgroup, then you must re-open that group to show the effect.
John's email & home pages don't seem to be at maji.com any longer :(
I haven't been able to contact him.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---games
mines
description: mine sweeper, clear all the mines without stepping on one
author: Neil Johnson
ver: 27/10/97
license: Copyright
http://members.xoom.com/Neil_Johnson
tsp hacks:
changed exec line
tetris
description: tetris, the game of falling blocks
author: Jeffery Hobbs
ver: 3.2
license: Copyright
http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/script/
tsp hacks:
none
hextris
description: a devilish version of tetris with hexagonal shapes
author: Jeffery Hobbs
ver: 1.1
license: Copyright
http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/script/
tsp hacks:
none
breakout:
description: classic breakout
author: Donal K. Fellows
ver: 11/1/1996
license: Copyright
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/tcl/#tclets
tsp hacks:
added exec line
adapted from tclet
hexplode
description: strategy game
author: Neil Winton
ver: 1.2
license: Copyright
http://www.winton.freeserve.co.uk/tcl/hexplode.html
tsp hacks:
adapted from tclet
videopoker
description: video poker
author: Joseph A. Konstan
ver: 1.0
license: BSD style
http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GIMME/video-poker.html
tsp hacks:
made window slightly smaller; use default mostly fonts
adapted from tclet
solitaire
description: classic solitaire
author: Michael J. McLennan
ver: 1.0
license: Copyright
http://www.tcltk.com/training/plugin/solitarie.vet
tsp hacks:
made window slightly smaller
Michael contributed the full non-tclet version
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---utilities
incant
description: Dictionary client
author: Chris Allen
ver: 1.5
license: GPL
http://www.turf.org/departments/publishing/incant/
tps hacks:
allow use of DICT_HOST & DICT_PORT environment variables
instead of default 'dict.org' and '2628'.
don't use bold fonts
stopwatch:
description: simple stopwatch
author: Don Libes
ver: 1.1
license: Copyright
http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/src/stopwatch/
tsp hacks:
changed exec line
md5
description: compute the RFC 1321 MD5 Message Digest of a file or string
author: Don Libes
ver: 1.0
license: Copyright
http://expect.nist.gov/md5pure/
tsp hacks:
i made a very simple interface, usage:
md5 "some string value" # md5 of a command line argument
md5 -f filename # md5 of a file
md5 # enter message in text box
fm
description: simple file manager, mime aware
see: vmail3 (tkapps) under news/mail
maplot
description: plot the sun's postition on the earth
author: Matti Koskinen
ver: 1.0
license: Copyright
http://www.sci.fi/~mjkoskin/
tsp hacks:
changed exec line
adapted from tclet
starmap
description: zoomable view of our closest stars
author: Sarang
ver: 1.0
license: Copyright
http://www.sarangworld.com/TCL/starmap.html
tsp hacks:
changed exec line; make initial window smaller
adapted from tclet
notes:
hold button-1 to drag map around
use mouse button-2 to zoom in (or shift-button-1, must stop with)
use mouse button-3 to zoom out (or control-button-1, other button!)
polaris (the north star) is the topmost star, ursae majoris (the big
dipper) should be visible below polaris.
mmencode
uuencode
uudecode
description: base64 mmencode, standard and base64 uuencode/uudecode
author: Steve Ball
ver: 1.0
license: BSD
http://www.zveno.com
tsp hacks:
taken from Steve's Tcl web browser, Plume. i added argument processing,
code to implement '-q' for mmencode, and added in the code for
uuencode/uudecode routines.
tclsh based, does not link to STARTUP.SH, but does look for $TCLTKLIB
to file lib files.
for vmail3 support
uniq
head
rmdir
description: simple implementations of these commands
author: Tom Poindexter
ver: 1.0
license: Copyright
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex
tsp hacks:
for vmail3 support
tclsh based, does not link to STARTUP.SH
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---graphics
impress
description: object oriented graphics drawing
author: Christopher Jay Cox
ver: 1.0b
license: GPL
http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/index.html
tsp hacks:
remove many hardcoded fonts, most are not on muLinux
change Global(Font)
include tkfontsel.tcl from impress_complete
tkpaint
description: object oriented graphics drawing
author: Samy Zafrany
ver: 1.5.4
license: GPL
http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/misc/tkpaint.html
tsp hacks:
make window geom slightly smaller
Victor B. Wagner is the Unix port maintainer
change font specifications, avoid bold
ldsdraw
description: Logical Data Structure(LDS) modeling software
author: Alex Safonov
ver: 5.0a
license: BSD style
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~safonov/ldsdraw
tsp hacks:
fix exec line; move extra files to /usr/tcltk/lib/ldsdraw; make initial
screen geometry smaller & remove placement; allow showhelp to use
gl(home) path; touch ldsobj.tcl lib file to allow startup.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---development
tkcon
description: enhanced console for Tcl
author: Jeffery Hobbs
ver: 1.6
license: Copyright
http://www.hobbs.wservice.com/tcl/script/tkcon/
tsp hacks:
none
vtcl
description: visual tcl application development
author: Stewart Allen
ver: 1.2.0
license: GPL
http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
tsp hacks:
added exec line;
hack vTcl:load_lib to look for .gz lib file;
compressed lib files, but had to touch lib_*.tcl files to make things
work
tuba
description: debugger for tcl applications
author: John Stump
ver: 2.4p1
license: Starving Artist Artistic License; see lib/tuba/LICENSE.TXT
http://members.xoom.com/iliadtools/tuba
tsp hacks:
remove TclparserX.tcl, make link to Tclparser.tcl; remove examples;
remove docs;
set tubalibdir to $env(TUBA_LIB); make window geom slightly smaller
lib/tuba/tuba_lib.tcl doesn't like to be compressed
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enjoy!
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