1 2 Memory Channels in Tcl 3 (Version 2.2.1 / DEC-03-2004) 4 5 Andreas Kupries (andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net) 6 7This directory contains a freely distributable extension to Tcl 8implementing memory channels, i.e. channels storing the data 9placed into them in memory, not on disk. 10 11 12BACKGROUND 13 14Tcl stands for the Tool Command Language, a freely distributable, 15embeddable scripting language package. Tk is an freely distributable X 16windows interface toolkit and widget library implemented as a collection of 17new commands added to Tcl. 18 19Memchan 2.2.1 is developed for Tcl 8.0 or higher. It is a Tcl 20extension, Tk is not required. 21 22This distribution contains the source code for Memchan + (very simple) 23documentation describing the new command. 24Memchan should be available by anonymous ftp from ftp.neosoft.com soon. 25 26 27COMPILING/USING Memchan 28 29To compile Memchan follow the instructions in the file README.install 30 31To report bugs, bug fixes, descriptions of interesting Memchan 32applications, and suggested improvements: 33 34+) Send email to andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net 35 36or 37 38+) Post an article to the newsgroup comp.lang.tcl 39 40 41REPORTING PROBLEMS 42 43This extension has been tested extensively on a number of platforms and with 44various versions of Tcl. If you find a problem and can reproduce it simply 45then please submit a bug report on the memchan sourceforge project at 46http://sourceforge.net/projects/memchan/ 47