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NOTES 10/14/93 -- Alpha 5.56
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= A word on installation... IMPORTANT!
===========================================================================
Tcl was originally written for unix-like systems. These systems typically
do not have many special characters in their file names. Initially, tcl
refused to work even w/ pathnames that contain spaces. The Tcl source
itself works fine w/ these names, but tcl scripts have to be careful in how
the names are manipulated. This problem gets even worse if the filename
contains square brackets ('[' and ']'), curly braces, or other
non-alphanumeric characters. I've fixed all the scripts that I've found
choke on pathnames w/ spaces, but many of them still don't work w/ square
brackets.
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THINK C 6.0
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Version 5.5 adds support for Think's "external editor". Think's interface
is not all there. In particular, while using an external editor there is
no was to tell the debugger to specify a specific location in a file from
the external editor. You can tell it to go to the beginning of a specific
file by selecting it in the project window and selecting "Go to
Debugger.". Symantec has promised fixes, but probably not until 6.0.2.
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INTERNATIONAL USERS
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Remember, if you want to use anything other than the US KCHR resource
(si vous voulez ecrire en francais, par exemple), change the line:
init 0 2
of :Tcl:SystemCode:AlphaBits.tcl to
init1 2
and restart. Alpha will now use your native KCHR, but the key binding labels
(such as F1 etc.) may not work, and option-e etc. are now "dead keys".
By default, the option key is used as a META key, duplicating escape
key sequences. To use the option key to create option characacter
combinations, change the line:
set optionIsMeta 1
to:
set optionIsMeta 0
pete