TCL

Check USB communication
How can I check a USB to serial device with a Tcl script? I want to read and write data from COM3 in USB. ... 22 Jan 2006 20:33

Problem clock scan "ccyymmdd hhmm" when hh="00"
This works: clock scan "20060117 0130" This fails: clock scan "20060117 0030" The man page says it supports time in hhmm format and works for all hours except "00". When using hours as "00", clock scan interprets minutes as hours for mm up to 23, then for mm> 23 fails: clock scan "20060117 00$mm" Now if you ap... 18 Jan 2006 01:42

reading user input
Is there anything for TCL that is like the "gets" command in Ruby? It just reads user input until EOL is encountered, I believe. Also is there a command like Ruby's "chomp"? It strips the last character if it is "\n". Thanks ... 16 Jan 2006 17:23

Code Visualization?
I have been using ActiveState's Komodo for about 2 years and like it very much. One thing would be great to do, but I have not figured out how to do this yet. As programs get bigger and bigger, I was wondering if anyone has found/created a tool to visualize the relationships between procedures? Idealy, I woul... 21 Jan 2006 09:41

reading environment vars in winxp from tcl script
Is there a built-in way .. or prefered way ... to get the settings of some of the environment vars in Winxp ? ( like %WINDIR% and %PATH% for instance so I can locate an ini file from within a tcl script ) thanks in advance, Mitch ... 13 Jan 2006 14:33

cgi
I have an application whose main work is done in a single proc. I now need to make it available via cgi. It takes three arguments, works a while and generates a large string (plain text, which is fine by the calling web interface). Is there a quick overview of what I need to do? (Read the arguments from env, p... 5 Jan 2006 13:02

Tcl vs. Lua
Coincidentally I came across Lua ( http://lua.org ). Seems their goals, portability, embeddability, extendability, are similar to Tcl. Just like Tcl, I had never heard of Lua, but they claim it to be simple, fast, etc. So, I can't help wonder how Tcl compares to Lua. Does anyone here know Lua? I'm sure each has... 31 Dec 2005 03:30

How to echo stdout and stderr into an already open file?
Hi Tcl gurus, I have an already open log file. I would like to echo the stdout and stderr as and when they are generated into the already opened log file. Can I do this with pipes? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ... 27 Dec 2005 11:59

Arrays
Hi I am trying to read a config file and place data into global arrays for each section I have in the config file. I was trying to use array get with pattern but does not work. Any suugestions of how this can be implemented Thanks krithiga ... 2 Jan 2006 19:47

TCL 3 Plugin
Gentlemen, If this is not the place to ask this question, please point me in the right direction. I have been unable to get the TCL plugin 3.0 for windows IE to install. I download tcplugin30-win32.xpi.zip, but I cannot find anything that tells me what to do with it. Extracting the zip gives me 3 files, two ... 16 Dec 2005 06:19