Re: running tcl shell interactive with source

Is this on a windows box? If so try the following
1. Make a bat file for each of the scripts you'd like preloaded
when the user starts tclsh. The bat looks like:
cp myscriptfile.tcl "%HOMEPATH%\tclshrc.tcl"
tclsh
2. Make desktop shortcuts to the batch files.

This uses the fact that tclsh will source %HOMEPATH%\tclshrc.tcl
prior to providing the command prompt. On unix you can do a similar
thing but
but the script will copy myscriptfile.tcl to ~/.tclshrc

RF


On Apr 9, 7:28 am, esd.protec...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

I would like to run a tcl shell interactively, but also want to
provide a file to 'source' on the command line.

The reason for asking is that I've a number of scripts that are used
interactively, that have various procedures in them. The procedures
are run by the user to test hardware. But I don't want the user to
type in 'source' followed by the name of a script in a shell - what I
want is a shortcut on the desktop that they click to bring up the
shell with the appropriate file already 'sourced'.

It doesn't look as if I can do this with tclsh, so I've tried tkcon
with command line:

-main "source my_tcl_file.tcl"

Which looked promising..... but unfortunately, although
my_tcl_file.tcl is indeed sourced in the shell (I know this because I
have a puts in the file), none of the procs and variables set in that
file are available by the time I get to use the prompt!!

Is there a way that I can acheive this? Or are there any other tcl
shells I can investigate?

Thx

.

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