Tcl - Execute program from within starpack

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Execute program from within starpack

John Culleton

2004-10-25, 4:02 pm

I need to bundle an executable program in my starpack, which is
addressed by an "exec" statement. Where do I put it and how do I
address it in my Tcl/Tk script?

John Culleton

Bob Techentin

2004-10-25, 4:02 pm

"John Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote
> I need to bundle an executable program in my starpack,
> which is addressed by an "exec" statement. Where do I
> put it and how do I address it in my Tcl/Tk script?

Nope. Can't do that. :-)

Exec makes a system call to create a new process, and the system
doesn't know anything about the innards of your starkit or starpack.
So you can't exec a program directly out of the starkit.

But you can copy out an executable into /tmp and exec it from there.
See the bottom of the Starkit Howto page at http://wiki.tcl.tk/8186
for a pointer to an example.

Bob
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