--- tcl8.5a1/html/UserCmd/tclsh.htm.orig Thu Mar 4 11:24:31 2004 +++ tcl8.5a1/html/UserCmd/tclsh.htm Thu Nov 18 12:47:37 2004 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
tclsh - Simple shell containing Tcl interpreter
SYNOPSIS
-
tclsh ?-encoding name? ?fileName arg arg ...? +
tclsh8.5 ?-encoding name? ?fileName arg arg ...?
DESCRIPTION
SCRIPT FILES @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@

NAME

tclsh - Simple shell containing Tcl interpreter

SYNOPSIS

-tclsh ?-encoding name? ?fileName arg arg ...?
+tclsh8.5 ?-encoding name? ?fileName arg arg ...?

DESCRIPTION

Tclsh is a shell-like application that reads Tcl commands from its standard input or from a file and evaluates them. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ line, but the script file can always source it if desired.

If you create a Tcl script in a file whose first line is -

#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh
+
#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5
then you can invoke the script file directly from your shell if you mark the file as executable. This assumes that tclsh has been installed in the default @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ following three lines:
#!/bin/sh
 # the next line restarts using tclsh \
-exec tclsh "$0" "$@"
+exec tclsh8.5 "$0" "$@" This approach has three advantages over the approach in the previous paragraph. First, the location of the tclsh binary doesn't have to be hard-wired into the script: it can be anywhere in your shell