Tcl/Tk on GEOS (Brother's GeoBook $599)?

Cameron Laird

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Nov 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/9/97

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In article <87909152...@optional.cts.com>,
C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com> wrote:
>Is Tcl/Tk on GEOS? Brother's GeoBook ($599) uses GEOS.
.
.
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Tcl is apparently the extension language for
the hosted debugger for GEOS; however, all
attempts to move it to GEOS itself have been
abandoned, as near as I can tell.
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C.W. Holeman

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Nov 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/11/97

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>In article <87909152...@optional.cts.com>,
>C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com> wrote:
>>Is Tcl/Tk on GEOS? Brother's GeoBook ($599) uses GEOS.
> .
> .
> .
>Tcl is apparently the extension language for
>the hosted debugger for GEOS; however, all
>attempts to move it to GEOS itself have been
>abandoned, as near as I can tell.

Abandoned by whom and why?

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Nov 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/11/97

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According to C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com>:
:
:>In article <87909152...@optional.cts.com>,

:>C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com> wrote:
:>>Is Tcl/Tk on GEOS? Brother's GeoBook ($599) uses GEOS.
:> .
:> .
:> .
:>Tcl is apparently the extension language for
:>the hosted debugger for GEOS; however, all
:>attempts to move it to GEOS itself have been
:>abandoned, as near as I can tell.
:
:Abandoned by whom and why?

Unfortunately, I don't have the details as to whom it was that attempted
the GEOS port. They reported to this newsgroup that the ported version of
Tcl was found to be difficult to run there except perhaps under the
desktop platform due to resource limits and platform constraints.

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Cameron Laird

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Nov 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/19/97

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In article <87920894...@optional.cts.com>,

C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <87909152...@optional.cts.com>,
>>C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com> wrote:
>>>Is Tcl/Tk on GEOS? Brother's GeoBook ($599) uses GEOS.
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>Tcl is apparently the extension language for
>>the hosted debugger for GEOS; however, all
>>attempts to move it to GEOS itself have been
>>abandoned, as near as I can tell.
>
>Abandoned by whom and why?

.
.
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See <URL:http://209.1.118.7/zoomer/zoomer-list/zoomer-list-4Q1994/0434.html>,
for example.

John D. Mitchell

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Nov 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/20/97

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On 19 Nov 1997 15:19:58 -0600, Cameron Laird <cla...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
wrote:

>In article <87920894...@optional.cts.com>,
>C.W. Holeman <cw...@cts.com> wrote:

[...]

>>>Tcl is apparently the extension language for
>>>the hosted debugger for GEOS; however, all
>>>attempts to move it to GEOS itself have been
>>>abandoned, as near as I can tell.
>>
>>Abandoned by whom and why?

Well, for one, I certainly took more than a passing look at doing it. It
would be a very non-trivial amount of work to get the Tcl way to work with
the GEOS way. It's theoretically doable but I don't think it would be
worth the effort.

>See <URL:http://209.1.118.7/zoomer/zoomer-list/zoomer-list-4Q1994/0434.html>,
>for example.

Gee, I didn't know that stuff was still around. You can reach me here
rather than at that old, school account if you really can't find the
referenced articles.

Take care,
John