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Re: Tcl exposes problem with cygwin/echo?
- To: "Dr. Volker Zell" <vzell@de.oracle.com>
- Subject: Re: Tcl exposes problem with cygwin/echo?
- From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:38:07 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney@roper.com>, "'Mike Kuhl'" <mkuhl@pixstream.com>, "Cygwin Mailing list (E-mail)" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
On 14 Jul 1999, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> I recompiled tcl from the Cygwin distribution as a X11 app by
> undefining __WIN32__
> In my case I get:
>
>
> vzell:/tmp> tclsh
> % set test {"This is a test."}
> "This is a test."
> % exec echo $test
> "This is a test."
>
The win32/Cygwin port of Tcl/Tk has lots of these subtle (and not so
subtle) problems. And, these problem won't go away until someone goes
in and fixes them. Unfortunately, a "real" Cygwin port is a lot of work
and chances are that we'll simply slowly patch the current code to
behave better under Cygwin. Cygwin Tcl/Tk "exec" is full of holes
currently.
Regards,
Mumit
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