Tcl7.5 missing file join

Peter Maersk-Moller (peter.maersk-moller@jrc.it)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:46:22 +0200

Hi Juergen Schoenwaelder, (and tkined@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)

I downloaded the following

scotty-2.1.0 (with tkined1.4.0)
Tcl7.5b3
Tk4.1b3

and compiled (see later) them on

Linux 2.0.10beta / i586 / gcc 2.7.0
Solaris 2.5 / Ultra Sparc / 2.5.6

with the same erronous result:

------------- Begin Included Message -------------
bash$ tkined1.4.0
bad option "join": should be atime, dirname, executable, exists, extension,
isdirectory, isfile, lstat, mtime, nativename, networkname, owned, readable,
readlink, root, size, stat, tail, type, or writable
while executing
"file join $dir Command.tcl" .........And a lot more
------------- End Included Message -------------

The README file for scotty-2.1.0 says it needs Tcl7.5 and Tk4.1

It seems Tcl7.5 don't have the "file join .... ...." any more. The man
page for the command file (in the n section) doesn't mention join any
more. It was described though in the man pages for Tcl7.4/Tk4.0. Its
also left out in the Brent Welch book on Tcl/Tk.

To compile it, I had to comment out the last 3 lines in the file
scotty-2.1.0/tnm/library/init.tcl saying :

------------- Begin Included Message -------------
if [file exists [file join $tnm(library) site init.tcl]] {
source [file join $tnm(library) site init.tcl]
}
------------- End Included Message -------------

Should I try to reinstall Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 ? (The README file says it only works
with 7.5/4.1) ?

Does there exist patch I don't know about yet ?

Where did you get your Tcl7.5/Tk4.1 from ? Maybe I still can get it there too.

Any answers to these questions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Peter

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