It's possible to run [Tcl] scripts as [service]s under [Microsoft Windows] NT.  [Matt Newman] has done a nice job of producing a wrapper, ''[tclsvc]'' that lets any event-driven Tcl script run as a service.  Get it from 
   http://www.sensus.org/tcl/index.htm 

or 

   http://mkextensions.sf.net/ 

I find the latter to be a somewhat nicer distribution.  I'm working on beefing up the documentation but I'm not sure where to put it.  Give me a hollar if you want a copy of my draft. -- [Chris Nelson]

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Firedaemon [http://www.firedaemon.com] is an alternative.
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[Winserv] is another alternative.
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[Activestate]'s [Tcl Dev Kit] provides a tool as well.

I'm using AS tcldev kit to wrap a service. I notice an issue when
my service code does an open
   set pch [open "|$program" r]
   fileevent $pch readable readableproc
I notice readableproc is never called when run under the service. When  the same code is run
standalone it works fine. Anybody know what's going on here? - [RT] 20, November 2004