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Say, does anyone know any good websites with a guide on using/programming Tcl/tk?

Thanks!

If you want to get serious about tcl/Tk download Practical Programming in tcl/Tk and the tcl/Tk cookbook.

If you haven't found it yet, the tcler's Wiki has a lot of helpful information and some code samples that help. http://wiki.tcl.tk/

cool
where can you get a decent compiler? simpletouse etc

If you are talking about a compiler for tcl you don't need one, if you are in Puppy you can just write your tcl program in an editor, make it executable and run it.

Ian, how do you make it executable? Then how do you run it?

In Puppy if you write a simple script like this,

#!/usr/bin/tclsh

puts {Hello from Puppy!}

and save it as helopup in /root/my-applications, you can make it executable by simply opening /root/my-applications in rox and right clicking on the file helopup.
From the menu that appears click on permissions and in the window that opens ensure that a+x (Make executable/searchable) is in the command field at the bottom of the window that opens, if so click Yes.

To run the program right click in the rox window again and click on 'Xterm here' then in the terminal that opens type in ./helopup and hit enter.

There is a lot more tcl stuff on the Wiki.

That is a dot . then a slash / then the name of the program 'helopup'.