wish and wish84 ?

In the ActiveState distribution there are wish and wish84 executables but
they appear to be identical ... are there any differences between the two?
And if not, why have both ... I know there must be a reason, anyone here
know why?
Thanks!

USCode <uscode@dontspam.me> wrote:
> In the ActiveState distribution there are wish and wish84 executables but
> they appear to be identical ... are there any differences between the two?
> And if not, why have both ... I know there must be a reason, anyone here
> know why?

Reason is that Windows doesn't have symlinks.

On typical Unix systems there can be several versions of wish in PATH,
named wish8.2, wish8.3, wish8.4 and so on. And most current one is also
named just "wish". Widnows lacks symlinks, and FAT file system even
lacks hard links, so latest version of wish is copied rather than
symlinked into wish.exe.

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