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same tcl different under ms windows and wine?
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bill...@alum.mit.edu
Jun 13, 2007, 7:59:25 PM6/13/07
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Something really odd just happened. I sent a friend a Starpack so that
he could test a program under MS Windows. When he ran it, he
encountered the old bug in which assigning a hexadecimal number like
0xFF to a scale variable fails because 0xFF is interpreted as non-
numeric. I've encountered this before and fixed it (by using decimal),
but evidently hadn't changed it here. The MS Windows runtime I used
turns out to be tcl 8.4.9, so it makes sense that the bug would turn
up when running the Starpack but not on my Linux systems since they
have 8.4.14 or later. The weird thing is that when I run the same
Starpack under Linux using Wine I get no such error. I don't see how
that is possible.
he could test a program under MS Windows. When he ran it, he
encountered the old bug in which assigning a hexadecimal number like
0xFF to a scale variable fails because 0xFF is interpreted as non-
numeric. I've encountered this before and fixed it (by using decimal),
but evidently hadn't changed it here. The MS Windows runtime I used
turns out to be tcl 8.4.9, so it makes sense that the bug would turn
up when running the Starpack but not on my Linux systems since they
have 8.4.14 or later. The weird thing is that when I run the same
Starpack under Linux using Wine I get no such error. I don't see how
that is possible.
I don't need a solution to this since it is easy enough to fix the
problem, but I am curious since this seems to be one of those things
can't happen.
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