Re: scotty/tk together on sun solaris?

Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:04:53 -0500

>
>Hi,
>
>I compiled the scotty2.1.0 (TNM2.1.0), TK 4.1, and TCL 7.5 on a Sun
>Solaris.
>
>They all seem to work but I can't get them to work together. In the old
>release we used scwish -f filename.tcl to set up the program but now if
>I use wish the tcl script can't run scotty commands or if I use scotty
>it won't find TK commands.
>
>What do I have to do to have my scripts be able to access both scotty
>and TK commands.
>
>Just to let you know, the program sets up a menu driven system to test
>network management systems. In the menus we have various ip addresses
>to point to to simulate, various ip addresses to point to to send traps,
>and then separate menus that either fire traps or set the simulator to
>act a certain way for a poll.
>
>The general environment is HP Openview, Seagate's Nerve Center and
>various other products in UNIX environments.
>
>We had the system working but right now it won't work with the new
>releases. I guess I can revert back to the older releases but they were
>all compiled on HP 9000's and now I need them on Sun Solaris's for this
>client.
>
>I would really appreciate any advice.
>
>Matt Dougherty
>mdougher@injersey.com
>
>
>

Just run wish and dynamically load the scotty extension. I do this all the
time. In fact, I have a program that loads scotty, tclx, expect, tix, blt
and msql extensions all for different purposes. tcl7.5 support of dynamically
loadable libraries makes this sort of thing easy.

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