Version 1 of Tcl built-ins for cross platform functionality

Updated 2001-10-16 11:55:00

Purpose: to document the various Tcl commands available to perform functions for which programmers commonly think they need external commands.

  • clock instead of external commands for date or time
  • glob instead of external commands for file listing commands like dir or ls
  • open/read/close instead of external commands for reading files

Arts and crafts of Tcl-tk programming