Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC/Tcl Programming help

Alan Rothenbush wrote:

>I'd like to modify the "MINI" EMC program a bit. I've done a fair bit
>of DOS and Windows programming, but no UNIX and certainly no Tcl.
>
>Any pointers to writing and (particularly) compiling Tcl programs would
>be most appreciated.
>
>

Tcl programs are not compiled. They are interpreted directly from the
source
code file, although a type of compilation is performed by the
interpreter as the
program runs.

For these sorts of purposes, the Tcl script is intimately linked to a
c++ file
that interfaces to the rest of EMC. This file is emcsh.cc, I think.

Tcl is a pretty strange and somewhat primitive language, and passing
information
between C++ and Tcl can sometimes be difficult to do. There are books on
it, but Barnes&Noble don't have them.

Jon