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Tcl 8.5 Network Programming

You're reading from  Tcl 8.5 Network Programming

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510967
Pages 588 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Tcl 8.5 Network Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Introducing Tcl 2. Advanced Tcl Features 3. Tcl Standalone Binaries 4. Troubleshooting Tcl applications 5. Data Storage 6. Networking in Tcl 7. Using Common Internet Services 8. Using Additional Internet Services 9. Learning SNMP 10. Web Programming in Tcl 11. TclHttpd in Client-Server Applications 12. SOAP and XML-RPC 13. SSL and Security

Learning Tclkit


Tclkit is another piece of technology without which our puzzle can't be completed. Basically, it is a single executable file that contains inside it a normal Tcl interpreter along with a set of extensions, such as:

  • Tk—for graphic interfaces

  • IncrTcl—for object-oriented programming—currently, it is an optional part of TclKit

  • TclVFS—the virtual file system, explained earlier; Tclkit contains drivers only for ZIP and MetaKit

  • Metakit—this was also explained earlier

The beauty and power of Tclkit comes from fact that it does not require installation, and that it is supported on a wide set of platforms, including:

  • AIX

  • FreeBSD

  • various distribution of Linux on architectures including x86, PowerPC, S/390 and others

  • HPUX

  • IRIX

  • MacOS Classic and MacOS X

  • Solaris

  • Windows

Tclkit may be obtained from the http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/index.html website.

At the time of writing this book, the latest version contains Tcl version 8.5.2. In the rest of this section, we will consider examples on the Windows...

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