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		   Tcl extension module for Perl5

	      Copyright (c) 1994-1997, Malcolm Beattie
			 All rights reserved.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of either:

        a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
        Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
        later version, or

        b) the "Artistic License" which comes with every Perl distribution.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See either
    the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.

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. There is a Tcl::Tk extension
(not to be confused with "native" perl5 Perl/Tk extension) distributed
separately which provides a raw but complete interface to the whole of
libtk via this Tcl extension.

Build in the usual way for a perl extension:

1. Tweak Makefile.PL is necessary only if your Tcl include files could
not be found automatically by Makefile.PL script. Normally you just make
sure you have right tcl in your path at a moment of running Makefile.PL
script.

2. perl Makefile.PL
   make

3. Before installing, you can run the small test suite with
    make test
if you wish.

4.  make install

In rare case when you do cross-compiling for WinCE, you need to edit and
use ceMakefile.PL

Malcolm Beattie	mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk
Vadim Konovalov	vkonovalov@peterstar.ru

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