This is an application created by default by the core distribution. It is a simple shell interpreter, and is frequently used by developers writing tcl scripts. A user of tclsh (or of [wish], the interactive tcl shell with Tk automatically loaded), should be aware that there are a few differences between typing tcl statements to the shell in interactive mode and typing tcl commands into a file and then executing it. * unknown proc differences - if tclsh is unable to recognize the command typed, the unknown proc is invoked. interactive: unknown will automatically pass command to exec . command file: the coder must specify exec before any non-tcl commands * standard output displayed interactive: stdout appears to the screen when you type commands command file: the coder must specify puts to get the output from a command to display to the screen * abbreviations ---- [Category Application], a part of the [Tcl] package.