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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.0.5 for Macintosh - DN [1]

James Ingham <jingham@cygnus.com> - 29 Mar 1999 - comp.lang.tcl.announce,comp.lang.tcl

 Hi, all...

 I finally got my PowerBook back, and have finished the 8.0.5 builds
 for the Macintosh.  They are at the old same place:

 http://www.scriptics.com/software/8.0.html

 There have not been that many Mac-specific changes since 8.0.5.  I put
 in Mark Roseman's fix for data corruption over sockets with slow
 connections.  I fixed the menu code so that the foreground Menu colors
 follow the current theme under Appearance.  That is about all.

 The other major bit I wanted to get in the 8.0.5 release was the code
 Sean Woods contributed to access the serial port on the Mac.  At first
 he suggested hacking it into the open command, as is curently done on
 Windows, but we decided that reserving magic cookies (like MODEM:,
 etc) was not a good extensible method.  So Sean has come up with a new
 "device" command, that allows you to talk (for now) to the serial
 port, and later could be extended to other devices as well.  If you
 have a use for this, give Sean (yoda@drexel.edu) or me a ping, and we
 will get you a copy.  I gave Sean the project files to build it as a
 C-code extension, so you can dynamically load it into the normal Wish
 interpreter.

 Now on to 8.1b2.  This will take a little while: the stubs stuff
 introduced a lot of low-level churn in the code, and while Scott and
 Ray were nice enough to type the changes into the Mac code, they could
 not compile it so there are still quite a number of typos that need
 finding, etc...

 Enjoy!

 Jim

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 Jim Ingham                                              jingham@cygnus.com
 Cygnus Solutions Inc.

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