This area contains TK and TCL (toolkit and command script language)
for VMS. Included are a V7 and early V8 versions, together with a
tip on building.

This following describes the V8 kits here.

This is my initial port of Tcl8.0 and Tk8.0 to VMS. I've only done very
light testing of this port, I ran out of time before having to leave
for vacation. Give it a try and let me know what's weird about it.

Missing is support for some of the new "file" manipulation commands, mainly
"file copy" and the directory removal logic for "file delete". I encourage
contributions in this area. Implementing a "smart" copy, i.e. preserve RMS
attributes, routine will take some coding effort.

The Tk8.0 menus behave strangely, I don't know if it's the VMS port or
a generic problem. Tk4.2 menus work fine. Run the widget demo to see
for yourself.

The function "tk_getOpenFile" mostly works but the display is ugly as
one sees ".dir", semi-colons and mixed-case filenames.

Haven't done a build on a Vax yet, again, I ran out of time.

The file tcl8.tgz is a GNU gzip compressed tar file of my Tcl build
directory and tk8.tgz is a GNU gzip compressed tar of the Tk build directory.
All the objects and executables are included.

I'm still using pmake. If someone contributes a MMS file, I'll include
it with the distribution.