Looking for "tclHelp" ...

Kenny McCormack

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Mar 22, 2018, 8:59:25 PM3/22/18

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Initial note about the text below: It's all about Linux. For the purposes
of this thread, Linux is the universe.

Long ago, I used a program called "tclHelp" (i'm 90% sure I got the name
right). It was a Tk app (again, I'm 90% of that) that contained all the
man pages for all the Tcl commands. It was very useful and was pretty much
the only way I had for learning Tcl commands.

Nowadays, I can't find it anywhere. FWIW, I think it was a Red Hat-ish
thing. Long ago, I ran Red Hat, but nowadays, I'm a Debian man. It
doesn't seem to be in any of the Debian repos.

I've Google searched all around for something that could be download or
built from source - but with no luck.

Help?

P.S. I've also heard about something called "TkMan" - which is supposed to
be about the same sort of thing. Any pointers on how to find that?

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Dave

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Mar 22, 2018, 11:06:55 PM3/22/18

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Tkman is still available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkman/
It is a nice GUI front end for unix man pages, info files, and maybe others.

It does rely on other software (easily obtainable and probably already
installed or available from the various linux package managers). It
looks like it might need a bit of work to upgrade to Tcl 8.6 since it
seems to have been last developed for 8.5 but I would suspect that it
would not take much tweaking. I used to run it on my FreeBSD system and
it worked fine.

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Kenny McCormack

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Mar 23, 2018, 9:38:01 AM3/23/18

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In article <p91r09$1keh$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Dave <nor...@nohost.com> wrote:
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>> P.S. I've also heard about something called "TkMan" - which is supposed to
>> be about the same sort of thing. Any pointers on how to find that?
>>
>
>Tkman is still available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkman/
>It is a nice GUI front end for unix man pages, info files, and maybe others.

OK - but I'd still prefer to find out what happened to the original
tclHelp. The underlying problem here is that some of the systems I am
working on do not have the regular Tcl man pages installed (the ones with
names like:

/usr/share/man/mann/regsub.ntcl

) And, of course, the really nice thing about tclHelp was that you could find
stuff without knowing ahead of time what you were looking for.

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Ted Nolan <tednolan>

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Mar 23, 2018, 12:58:15 PM3/23/18

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In article <p92vvk$gif$1...@news.xmission.com>,

Of course, they are all online..

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TclCmd/contents.htm
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briang

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Mar 23, 2018, 5:59:27 PM3/23/18

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You are probably referring to the Tcl8*.hlp file found on Windows *ONLY*. It probably did look like Tk since the basic set of Windows widgets look like Tk on Windows (or is that vis-versa?)
This specialized Windows help has been replaced by html man pages long ago.

-Brian

stefan

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Mar 23, 2018, 6:17:24 PM3/23/18

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> OK - but I'd still prefer to find out what happened to the original
> tclHelp.

Google tells me that a "tclhelp" was/is part of TclX:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tclx/files/TclX/

tclhelp.tcl in 8.3.5
help.tcl in 8.4.*

HTH, Stefan