Tcl/Tk 8.2 Release Announcement
August 18th, 1999

We are pleased to announce the final release of version 8.2 of the Tcl scripting 
language and the Tk toolkit. This is primarily a bugfix release but a few new 
features have also been added. 

For those who haven't been keeping up with the beta cycle, the new features in 8.2
include:

i) a first implementation of the Tcl Extension Architecture (TEA);

ii) the Trf patch for stacked I/O Channels, which allows the SSL and other channel
system extensions to work;

iii) the DDE patch that provides the poke command;

iv) significantly improved string and regular expression performance;

v). a modified socket driver for Windows that uses a thread to manage the socket 
event window. 

We'd like to thank all of you for your patches and other feedback on the beta.
The list of contributors on the Scriptics web site has been updated to 
acknowledge those members of the Tcl community whose code or ideas found their 
way into this release.

Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl 8.2 and Tk 8.2 are available by public FTP from ftp.scriptics.com in the
directory /pub/tcl/tcl8_2. Within a few days, they will appear at numerous
mirror sites around the internet. The easiest way to retrieve these releases is
via the Scriptics web page for the 8.2 releases
        http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html

For additional information
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For complete information about all the Tcl/Tk resources available on the internet,
visit the Tcl Resource Center at Scriptics:
        http://www.scriptics.com/resource/