You can download TCL869 and play with it yourself. Its dos but seems to need windows in the background. I wantn't to see what a radiobutton looked like. I believe the examples were professionally written a long time ago, now they're play toys.
cheers DS On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:53:00 -0500 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:57 PM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > > > I downloaded TCl 8.69 and have been playing with it. > > They give you TCL example files to run. One interesting > > file was about 1.5 meg. When I ran it, it would always > > ask for msg 1.6 (whatever that is) so I tried to edit the > > file to remove the part that made the error. The Freedos > > editor said it was too big so I used wordperfect to do it, > > which had zero problems doing it. Still got the message > > with that part removed. Tried TCL 8.5 also; its examples > > run wiithout the error but 8.5 doesn't have any of the TK > > commands like buttons. > > Which example file was this? TCL is an interpreted script language. > I am trying to imagine a TCL script language file that is 1.5MB in > size and failing. (You may well have one. I've just never seen one > that big.) > > WordPerfect will certainly have no problems - programs like that > assume large files and would have the coding to perform operations > on > data that spanned CPU segments. (You wouldn't fit a novel into 64K > of > text.) Text editors assumed program code as the source material, > and > programming tended to be modular. You didn't write one enormous > monolithic file. You broke your code up into modules that did > specific things, and the compiler would compile the modules and the > linker would put them together into an executable. If the source > code > for a program module exceeded 64K in size, you were arguably doing > it > wrong and needed to refactor your code. > > As mentioned, there are other DOS editors in the FreeDOS repo that > can > handle larger files. Even if you could find a DOS version of Vedit, > it would be *extreme* overkill. Vedit was notable because it could > successfully edit files from hundreds of megabytes up to 2 > *gigabytes* > in size. Most mere mortals will never need to do that. > > > cheers > > DS > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Meghan Markle Confirms Unfortunate News track.volutrk.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5dcb1ecae25bc1eca76f6st03duc _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
