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RE: tclsh - try command
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at xerox dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:42:42 +0000
- Subject: RE: tclsh - try command
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From: cyg Simple
> Dear list,
>
> I'm thinking of using TCL for a development program I'm spearheading.
> The documentation for TCL http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TclCmd/try.htm show
> that this is available and I need to use it. But with Cygwin's version
> I get the following. Why isn't it available?
>
> <code interpreter="tclsh">
> % try {
> echo "abc"
> } on error {
> puts "error"
> }
> </code>
> <result>
> invalid command name "try"
> </result>
>
> --
> cyg Simple
Looking at http://www.tcl.tk/man/
it appears that "try" was new with version 8.6,
but Cygwin's version is 8.5:
$ tclsh
% info tcl
8.5
%
--Ken Nellis