Lars Appel writes:
> By the way, does anybody know if Tcl/Tk is available for MPE/iX or
> if it would be something useful to port if it hasn't been done yet?

[ For those of you who don't know what Tcl/Tk is, it's a scripting language
  similar to Perl. ]

I have a low priority need for Tcl/Tk, so recently I downloaded Tcl for a
"what the heck" quickie attempt at porting it.

The configure script seemed to run clean once the usual MPE/iX modifications
were made.  A bunch of modules compiled cleanly, but eventually choked on
some missing math functions.

I doubt there's anything insurmountable preventing a Tcl/Tk port to MPE, but
since my need is low and my free time scarce, I have no immediate plans to work
on this.

PS: I'm interested in Tcl because that's what DB 2.0 (which I need to migrate
Sendmail/iX to from DB 1.85) requires in order to run its test suite.  But
DB 2.0 also comes with some C example programs which I'm using to test with
instead of Tcl.
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