Return info about Extended Tcl or the current application

Synopsis

• infox option

Description

Return information about Extended Tcl, or the cur- rent application. The following infox command options are available:

version Return the version number of Extended Tcl. The version number for Extended Tcl is gener- ated by combining the base version of the standard Tcl code with a letter indicating the version of Extended Tcl being used. This is the documentation for version 7.4a.

patchlevel Return the patchlevel for Extended Tcl.

have_fchown Return 1 if the fchown system call is avail- able. This supports the -fileid option on the chown and chgrp commands.

have_fchmod Return 1 if the fchmod system call is avail- able. This supports the -fileid option on the chmod command.

have_flock Return 1 if the flock command defined, 0 if it is not available.

have_fsync Return 1 if the fsync system call is available and the sync command will sync individual files. 0 if it is not available and the sync command will always sync all file buffers.

have_ftruncate Return 1 if the ftruncate or chsize system call is available. If it is, the ftruncate command -fileid option maybe used.

have_msgcats Return 1 if XPG message catalogs are avail- able, 0 if they are not. The catgets is designed to continue to function without mes- sage catalogs, always returning the default string.

have_posix_signals Return 1 if Posix signals are available (block and unblock options available for the signal command). 0 is returned if Posix signals are not available. have_truncate Return 1 if the truncate system call is avail- able. If it is, the ftruncate command may truncate by file path.

have_waitpid Return 1 if the waitpid system call is avail- able and the wait command has full functional- ity. 0 if the wait command has limited func- tionality.

appname Return the symbolic application name of the current application linked with the Extended Tcl library. The C variable tclAppName must be set by the application to return an appli- cation specific value for this variable.

applongname Return a natural language name for the current application. The C variable tclLongAppName must be set by the application to return an application specific value for this variable.

appversion Return the version number for the current application. The C variable tclAppVersion must be set by the application to return an application-specific value for this variable.

apppatchlevel Return the patchlevel for the current applica- tion. The C variable tclAppPatchlevel must be set by the application to return an applica- tion-specific value for this variable.