meepa

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??

Latch

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.

meepa

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!

littlebighead

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.).

bendsley

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

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

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