TclVFS is the extension that exposes the core level Virtual File System
(VFS) layer, now part of Tcl/Tk (8.4a5 is required, 8.4.1.1 or newer for best possible operation, using Tcl 8.4.3 or 8.4.4 would be a good idea.).  The current version of the tclvfs extension is 1.3.0

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See also [VFS].  The C extension is now very robust and well tested.
But, distributed with tclvfs are a large number of virtual filesystem
implementations (in pure Tcl).  Many of these still need a lot of work
(but since it is pure Tcl, lots of people should be able to help).

tclvfs relies on [Memchan] or some equivalent to 'open' (or 'load' or 'source') any file. 

'''Please help develop the tclvfs package further!'''

Contributions of binary versions of tclvfs to be placed on sourceforge much appreciated.

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Home page on SourceForge:
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclvfs/

This package is part of the [ActiveTcl] Batteries Included distribution.
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'''VFS links'''
   * [tclVFS Usage]
   * [tclVFS Building]
   * There are some idiosyncrasies in writing a tclvfs, save some time by checking [tclVFS Gotchas]
   * [tclVFS Hints and Tricks]
   * [tclVFS Examples]
   * [tclVFS Needs]
   * Readonly - writable - translucent ... see [vfs filesystem configuration]

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'''Actual VFSs'''

   * [A collate/broadcast virtual filesystem]
   * [A template virtual filesystem]
   * [A quota-enforcing virtual filesystem]
   * [A versioning virtual filesystem]
   * [An LZW-compressing virtual filesystem]
   * [Caching VFS]
   * (add more)

'''Distributed VFSs'''
   * package ifneeded [vfs::ftp] 1.0 
   * package ifneeded [vfs::http] 0.5
   * package ifneeded [vfs::mk4] 1.6 
   * package ifneeded [vfs::ns] 0.5 
   * package ifneeded [vfs::tar] 0.9
   * package ifneeded [vfs::test] 1.0
   * package ifneeded [vfs::urltype] 1.0
   * package ifneeded [vfs::webdav] 0.1
   * package ifneeded [vfs::zip] 1.0 
   * package ifneeded [vfs::tk] 0.5
   * (add more)

'''Possible VFSs'''

   * [metadata virtual filesystem]
   * [tclCVS virtual filesystem]
   * [pure tcl distributed filesystem]
   * (add more)
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'''Questions, Problems'''

Can tcl and tclvfs together be used to poke around a starkit?

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[[ [Category Package] | [Category VFS] ]]