
*** Tcl <-> Binary/C struct   package ***  release 1.2 !
(c) 1994/1995/1996 Observatoire de Paris
(c) 1997 Laurent Demailly                 - see LICENSE

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For a good overview and documentation see
doc/libtclbin.dvi or doc/libtclbin.ps files
and then the man page doc/TclBin.n (and .ps) 
You can also look at the BLURB file.
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Tclbin package was developed in october 1994 by myself at the
Paris Observatory and is under an heavy use in lots of places
worldwide. Since late 1996 I'm still maintaining it 
during my (limited!) free time though I'm no longer
employed by the observatory.

Feel free to try it and use it, and give me feed back, bug reports,
suggestions,...etc... Though I can't promise, I'll also try
to answer questions and fix problems asap...
(mail to dl@mail.dotcom.fr (my pobox email))

Please read the doc/libtclbin.ps and man pages. The new tests/ dir
might give tcl examples/hints too. (Don't forget to run "make test")
If the C API is a concern, have a look at the cdoc/* man
pages. Looking at the bindata.c and the examples (*.c) might be
interesting too.

This release works with all tcl versions from tcl7.3 to tcl7.6,
[quite astonishly, it also compiles and seems to run out of the box
 with the current tcl8 alpha version, though it does'nt use any of the
 new object features... a special tcl8 aware version will come after
 stable tcl release]
With the newest (7.5/7.6) tcl version; it features the
binary access as a loadable module (see INSTALL). There was 3 non
public beta releases before this one and 7 public releases of earlier
versions so I think its pretty stable now.

I switched to GNU autoconf/configure so it should now compile out of
the box almost everywhere Tcl compiled... Send feedback if it is not
the case ! (see INSTALL)

The examples/ directory includes several applications, including
a simple http url fetcher (geturl) an (anonymous) HTTP WWW
proxy using.

Laurent Demailly
old email (where an answering machine shall tell you where I am):
  dl@hplyot.obspm.fr
new email dispatcher
  ld@mail.box.eu.org (which currently just distributes to the other two)
pobox email
  dl@mail.dotcom.fr
urls
  http://www.box.eu.org/~dl/
  http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/~dl/

Ps :
+ You can also subscribe to the "tclbin" list by sending 
 "subscribe tclbin your name" as the mail body of a mail sent to
 listserv@hplyot.obspm.fr (for me it was :
 echo "subscribe tclbin Laurent Demailly" | mail listserv@hplyot.obspm.fr )
+ You might have a look from times to time on
  http://www.box.eu.org/~dl/tclbin.html
  for uptodate infos.
