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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:32:23 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: TCL 8.3.5 and DJGPP 2.03
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Hello.

I've done a little work on porting TCL (Tool Control Language) 8.3.5 to DJGPP
2.03. You can find my diffs here:

    http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/tcl/8.3.5/

It builds and passes a reasonable number of tests from the TCL test suite.
There are a couple of problems:

* It doesn't support executing programs yet. E.g.:

    set foo [exec echo "Hello World!"]

fails, because it can't create a pipe. (I was planning to work around this
using popen, but I haven't looked at that much yet.)

* It crashes sometimes. I can provoke it by pressing Ctrl+P and then any other
key. I haven't got very far yet, but it sounds like some kind of interrupt
handling thing. It crashes the whole DOS box with faults in VMM and addresses
like 0028:Cxxxxxxx and 1xxx:xxxx.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]