How can I open a .tcl extension file?
 

Okay, so I got an exam via email from one of my profs and it's a .tcl file. I've never heard of this, and I tried googling it, but I quickly became overwhelmed by my inferior computer knowledge. Does anybody know where I can find a program to open this type file please??

tcl is source code, usually... although I'm guessing it's not in this case.

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=TCL has information on three things of what it could be, but for exams... I'm not sure. Try opening the file in notepad, see if it's just plain text.

Thanks. I finally checked it in Wordpad again. There is a bunch of garbled crypted stuff, but if I scroll through enough of it, I actually found the information written out. The format isn't pretty, but at least I can do it! Thanks for the help again!

Download a Tcl interpreter at www.tcl.tk
 

Tcl is actually a great scripting language, albeit a bit old. I used it quite a bit in college at UC Berkeley, where it was created by John Osterhout. It's a great "glue" language -- it allows you to quickly, easily build a GUI for C++ code, but Tcl is a great stand-alone language as well. It has excellent string processing capabilities (regex, associative arrays, etc.).

might look here if you're on a Windows platform.

http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/