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Gerald_Scharitz
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Dec 11, 2012

TCL Reference

On the iRules homepage the link "TCL Reference" points to http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/index.html. From this page the About... link leads to the following information.

 

"This documentation corresponds to what was on the SourceForge CVS repository at the time that I last built the tarball, and probably does not correspond 100% to any existing Tcl/Tk release."

 

According to SOL6091, iRules are based on TCL 8.4.6 and the documentation for this version is the TCL/TK 8.4 Manual.

 

One example where this matters is the clock command. TCL 8.5 supports clock microseconds, while TCL 8.4 and iRules support clock clicks -milliseconds only.

 

Should we change the link on the iRules homepage to point to http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/?

 

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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Dec 11, 2012
    Hi Gerald,

     

     

    I agree. I emailed one of the DC admins to see if we can update the link.

     

     

    I use the 8.4-specific TCL man pages (for example: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/clock.htm). It looks like the iRule Editor links to this 8.4 wiki for standard TCL commands as well.

     

     

    Aaron