     Tcl and Tcl::Tk extension modules (release alpha2) for Perl5

		 Copyright (c) 1994  Malcolm Beattie
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This is the alpha2 release of the Tcl (and Tcl::Tk) extension modules
for Perl5. If you have the 5.000 release of perl5, then you'll need to
get a newer version of the ExtUtils::MakeMaker extension which is used
to convert the extension's Makefile.PL into a Makefile.

The Tcl extension provides a small but complete interface into libtcl
and any other Tcl-based library. It lets you create Tcl interpreters
(as perl5 objects), bind in commands to them (either perl subroutines
or C functions dynamically loaded with the DynaLoader extension) and
execute Tcl code in those interpreters. The Tcl::Tk extension (not to
be confused with tkperl5, the "native" perl5 version of Tk) provides
a raw but complete interface to the whole of libtk via the Tcl extension.

Malcolm Beattie
mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk
