DOS ain't dead

Here's Tcl 9.0.0 built with DJGPP (tcl90r1.zip). Includes Sqlite 3.46.1. https://archive.org/details/tcl-9.0.0-for-dos https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/files/dos386/devel/tcl/ For details on new commands, options, TclOO facilities, and number handling, see: https://www.tcl-lang.com/software/tcltk/9.0.html The new major features in Tcl 9.0 generally don't apply to DOS. * 64-bit capacity (DJGPP is 32-bit) * Full range of Unicode codepoints (DJGPP isn't really Unicode-aware) * Zipfs is disabled (mmap not available on DOS) * Unix notifiers falling back to select (epoll()/kqueue() not available on DOS) I dropped the Ck extension. A patch is included to build it with Tcl 9.0.0, but it crashes during initialization and i lacked the patience to debug it.

Nice! How did you manage to overcome all the DOS thread limitations mentioned in the earlier posts? And other question - I do not know Tcl at all but it should be simple. Can be your build used also for some networking TCP/IP applications?

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DOS-u-akbar!

> Nice! > How did you manage to overcome all the DOS thread limitations mentioned in > the earlier posts? > And other question - I do not know Tcl at all but it should be simple. Can > be your build used also for some networking TCP/IP applications? Thanks! I didn't overcome the DOS thread limitations. This is a "no threads" build of Tcl. For now this is possible in Tcl 9.0.0, but i expect this to change in a future version. I built against WATTCP so it should work for networking TCP/IP applications. I have not tested networking yet.