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tclvars
 
tclvars(n)		     Tcl Built-In Commands		    tclvars(n)



NAME
       tclvars - Variables used by Tcl


DESCRIPTION
       The following global variables are created and managed automatically by
       the Tcl library.  Except where noted below, these variables should nor-
       mally  be  treated  as  read-only  by  application-specific code and by
       users.

       env    This variable is maintained by Tcl as an	array  whose  elements
	      are  the environment variables for the process.  Reading an ele-
	      ment will return the  value  of  the  corresponding  environment
	      variable.   Setting an element of the array will modify the cor-
	      responding environment variable  or  create  a  new  one	if  it
	      doesn't  already exist.  Unsetting an element of env will remove
	      the corresponding environment  variable.	 Changes  to  the  env
	      array will affect the environment passed to children by commands
	      like exec.  If the entire env array is unset then Tcl will  stop
	      monitoring  env  accesses  and will not update environment vari-
	      ables.
	      Under Windows, the environment variables PATH and COMSPEC in any
	      capitalization  are  converted automatically to upper case.  For
	      instance, the PATH variable could be exported by	the  operating
	      system  as ``path'', ``Path'', ``PaTh'', etc., causing otherwise
	      simple Tcl code to have to  support  many  special  cases.   All
	      other  environment  variables  inherited by Tcl are left unmodi-
	      fied.  Setting an env array variable to blank  is  the  same  as
	      unsetting  it  as this is the behavior of the underlying Windows
	      OS.  It should be noted that relying on an  existing  and  empty
	      environment  variable  won't  work on windows and is discouraged
	      for cross-platform usage.
	      On the Macintosh, the environment variable is constructed by Tcl
	      as no global environment variable exists.  The environment vari-
	      ables that are created for Tcl include:

	      LOGIN  This holds the Chooser name of the Macintosh.

	      USER   This also holds the Chooser name of the Macintosh.

	      SYS_FOLDER
		     The path to the system directory.

	      APPLE_M_FOLDER
		     The path to the Apple Menu directory.

	      CP_FOLDER
		     The path to the control panels directory.

	      DESK_FOLDER
		     The path to the desk top directory.

	      EXT_FOLDER
		     The path to the system extensions directory.

	      PREF_FOLDER
		     The path to the preferences directory.

	      PRINT_MON_FOLDER
		     The path to the print monitor directory.

	      SHARED_TRASH_FOLDER
		     The path to the network trash directory.

	      TRASH_FOLDER
		     The path to the trash directory.

	      START_UP_FOLDER
		     The path to the start up directory.

	      HOME   The path to the application's default directory.

	      You can also create your own environment variables for the  Mac-
	      intosh.	A  file named  Tcl Environment Variables may be placed
	      in the preferences folder in the Mac system folder.   Each  line
	      of this file should be of the form VAR_NAME=var_data.

	      The  last  alternative  is  to  place environment variables in a
	      'STR#' resource named Tcl Environment Variables of the  applica-
	      tion.  This is considered a little more ``Mac like'' than a Unix
	      style Environment Variable  file.   Each	entry  in  the	'STR#'
	      resource	has  the  same	format as above.  The source code file
	      tclMacEnv.c contains the implementation of the  env  mechanisms.
	      This  file  contains  many #define's that allow customization of
	      the env mechanisms to fit your applications needs.

       errorCode
	      After an error has occurred, this variable will be set  to  hold
	      additional information about the error in a form that is easy to
	      process with programs.  errorCode consists of a  Tcl  list  with
	      one  or more elements.  The first element of the list identifies
	      a general class of errors, and determines the format of the rest
	      of  the  list.   The following formats for errorCode are used by
	      the Tcl core; individual applications may define additional for-
	      mats.

	      ARITH code msg
		     This format is used when an arithmetic error occurs (e.g.
		     an attempt to divide by zero in the expr command).   Code
		     identifies  the  precise  error and msg provides a human-
		     readable description of the error.  Code will  be	either
		     DIVZERO (for an attempt to divide by zero), DOMAIN (if an
		     argument is outside the domain of	a  function,  such  as
		     acos(-3)),  IOVERFLOW  (for  integer  overflow), OVERFLOW
		     (for a floating-point overflow), or UNKNOWN (if the cause
		     of the error cannot be determined).

	      CHILDKILLED pid sigName msg
		     This  format is used when a child process has been killed
		     because of a signal.  The	second	element  of  errorCode
		     will be the process's identifier (in decimal).  The third
		     element will be the symbolic  name  of  the  signal  that
		     caused  the  process  to terminate; it will be one of the
		     names from the include file signal.h,  such  as  SIGPIPE.
		     The fourth element will be a short human-readable message
		     describing the signal, such as ``write on	pipe  with  no
		     readers'' for SIGPIPE.

	      CHILDSTATUS pid code
		     This  format is used when a child process has exited with
		     a non-zero exit status.  The second element of  errorCode
		     will  be  the  process's  identifier (in decimal) and the
		     third element will be  the  exit  code  returned  by  the
		     process (also in decimal).

	      CHILDSUSP pid sigName msg
		     This  format  is  used when a child process has been sus-
		     pended because of a signal.  The second element of error-
		     Code  will  be the process's identifier, in decimal.  The
		     third element will be the symbolic  name  of  the	signal
		     that  caused  the process to suspend; this will be one of
		     the names from the include file signal.h, such  as  SIGT-
		     TIN.   The  fourth element will be a short human-readable
		     message describing the signal, such as  ``background  tty
		     read'' for SIGTTIN.

	      NONE   This format is used for errors where no additional infor-
		     mation is available for  an  error  besides  the  message
		     returned  with  the error.  In these cases errorCode will
		     consist of a list containing a single element whose  con-
		     tents are NONE.

	      POSIX errName msg
		     If  the  first  element  of  errorCode is POSIX, then the
		     error occurred during a POSIX kernel  call.   The	second
		     element of the list will contain the symbolic name of the
		     error that occurred, such as ENOENT; this will be one  of
		     the  values  defined  in  the  include file errno.h.  The
		     third element of the list will be a  human-readable  mes-
		     sage  corresponding to errName, such as ``no such file or
		     directory'' for the ENOENT case.

	      To set errorCode, applications  should  use  library  procedures
	      such  as Tcl_SetErrorCode and Tcl_PosixError, or they may invoke
	      the error command.  If one of these methods  hasn't  been  used,
	      then  the  Tcl interpreter will reset the variable to NONE after
	      the next error.

       errorInfo
	      After an error has occurred, this string	will  contain  one  or
	      more lines identifying the Tcl commands and procedures that were
	      being executed when the most recent error  occurred.   Its  con-
	      tents  take the form of a stack trace showing the various nested
	      Tcl commands that had been invoked at the time of the error.

       tcl_library
	      This variable holds the name of a directory containing the  sys-
	      tem library of Tcl scripts, such as those used for auto-loading.
	      The value of this variable is returned by the info library  com-
	      mand.   See  the library manual entry for details of the facili-
	      ties provided by the Tcl script library.	Normally each applica-
	      tion  or	package  will have its own application-specific script
	      library in addition to the Tcl script library; each  application
	      should  set  a  global  variable	with  a name like $app_library
	      (where app is the application's name) to hold the  network  file
	      name  for  that  application's  library  directory.  The initial
	      value of tcl_library is set when an interpreter  is  created  by
	      searching  several different directories until one is found that
	      contains an appropriate Tcl startup script.  If the  TCL_LIBRARY
	      environment  variable  exists,  then  the  directory it names is
	      checked first.  If TCL_LIBRARY isn't set or doesn't refer to  an
	      appropriate directory, then Tcl checks several other directories
	      based on a compiled-in default location,	the  location  of  the
	      binary  containing  the  application,  and  the  current working
	      directory.

       tcl_patchLevel
	      When an interpreter is created Tcl initializes this variable  to
	      hold  a  string  giving the current patch level for Tcl, such as
	      7.3p2 for Tcl 7.3 with the first two official patches, or  7.4b4
	      for the fourth beta release of Tcl 7.4.  The value of this vari-
	      able is returned by the info patchlevel command.

       tcl_pkgPath
	      This variable holds a list of directories indicating where pack-
	      ages  are  normally  installed.	It is not used on Windows.  It
	      typically contains either one or two entries; if it contains two
	      entries,	the  first is normally a directory for platform-depen-
	      dent packages (e.g., shared library binaries) and the second  is
	      normally	a  directory  for platform-independent packages (e.g.,
	      script files). Typically a package is installed as  a  subdirec-
	      tory  of	one of the entries in $tcl_pkgPath. The directories in
	      $tcl_pkgPath are included by default in the auto_path  variable,
	      so  they	and  their  immediate subdirectories are automatically
	      searched for packages during package  require  commands.	 Note:
	      tcl_pkgPath  it  not intended to be modified by the application.
	      Its value is added to auto_path at startup; changes to  tcl_pkg-
	      Path  are not reflected in auto_path.  If you want Tcl to search
	      additional directories for packages you should add the names  of
	      those directories to auto_path, not tcl_pkgPath.

       tcl_platform
	      This  is an associative array whose elements contain information
	      about the platform on which the application is running, such  as
	      the  name  of  the operating system, its current release number,
	      and the machine's instruction set.  The  elements  listed  below
	      will  always be defined, but they may have empty strings as val-
	      ues if Tcl couldn't retrieve any relevant information.  In addi-
	      tion,  extensions  and applications may add additional values to
	      the array.  The predefined elements are:

	      byteOrder
		     The native byte order of this machine:  either  littleEn-
		     dian or bigEndian.

	      debug  If  this  variable  exists, then the interpreter was com-
		     piled with and linked  to	a  debug-enabled  C  run-time.
		     This  variable  will  only exist on Windows, so extension
		     writers can specify which package to  load  depending  on
		     the  C  run-time  library that is in use.	This is not an
		     indication that this core contains symbols.

	      machine
		     The instruction set executed by  this  machine,  such  as
		     intel, PPC, 68k, or sun4m.  On UNIX machines, this is the
		     value returned by uname -m.

	      os     The name of the operating system running on this machine,
		     such as Windows 95, Windows NT, MacOS, or SunOS.  On UNIX
		     machines, this is the value returned  by  uname  -s.   On
		     Windows  95  and  Windows	98, the value returned will be
		     Windows 95 to provide better backwards  compatibility  to
		     Windows  95;  to  distinguish  between the two, check the
		     osVersion.

	      osVersion
		     The version number for the operating  system  running  on
		     this  machine.   On  UNIX	machines,  this  is  the value
		     returned by uname -r.  On Windows 95, the version will be
		     4.0; on Windows 98, the version will be 4.10.

	      platform
		     Either  windows, macintosh, or unix.  This identifies the
		     general operating environment of the machine.

	      threaded
		     If this variable exists, then the	interpreter  was  com-
		     piled with threads enabled.

	      user   This  identifies  the  current  user  based  on the login
		     information available on the platform.  This  comes  from
		     the USER or LOGNAME environment variable on Unix, and the
		     value from GetUserName on Windows and Macintosh.

	      wordSize
		     This gives the size of the native-machine word  in  bytes
		     (strictly,  it  is  same  as  the	result	of  evaluating
		     sizeof(long) in C.)

       tcl_precision
	      This variable controls the number of  digits  to	generate  when
	      converting floating-point values to strings.  It defaults to 12.
	      17 digits is ``perfect'' for  IEEE  floating-point  in  that  it
	      allows  double-precision	values	to be converted to strings and
	      back to binary with no loss of information.  However,  using  17
	      digits  prevents any rounding, which produces longer, less intu-
	      itive results.  For example, expr 1.4 returns 1.3999999999999999
	      with tcl_precision set to 17, vs. 1.4 if tcl_precision is 12.
	      All  interpreters  in  a	process  share	a single tcl_precision
	      value: changing it in one  interpreter  will  affect  all  other
	      interpreters  as	well.	However,  safe	interpreters  are  not
	      allowed to modify the variable.

       tcl_rcFileName
	      This variable is used during initialization to indicate the name
	      of  a  user-specific startup file.  If it is set by application-
	      specific initialization, then the Tcl startup  code  will  check
	      for  the existence of this file and source it if it exists.  For
	      example, for wish the variable is set to ~/.wishrc for Unix  and
	      ~/wishrc.tcl for Windows.

       tcl_rcRsrcName
	      This  variable  is only used on Macintosh systems.  The variable
	      is used during initialization to indicate the name  of  a  user-
	      specific	TEXT  resource located in the application or extension
	      resource forks.  If it is set by	application-specific  initial-
	      ization,	then the Tcl startup code will check for the existence
	      of this resource and source it if it exists.  For  example,  the
	      Macintosh wish application has the variable is set to tclshrc.

       tcl_traceCompile
	      The  value of this variable can be set to control how much trac-
	      ing information is displayed during  bytecode  compilation.   By
	      default,	tcl_traceCompile  is  zero  and no information is dis-
	      played.  Setting tcl_traceCompile to 1 generates a one-line sum-
	      mary in stdout whenever a procedure or top-level command is com-
	      piled.  Setting it to 2 generates a detailed listing  in	stdout
	      of  the  bytecode instructions emitted during every compilation.
	      This variable is useful in tracking down suspected problems with
	      the  Tcl compiler.  It is also occasionally useful when convert-
	      ing existing code to use Tcl8.0.

       This variable and functionality only  exist  if	TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG  was
       defined during Tcl's compilation.

       tcl_traceExec
	      The  value of this variable can be set to control how much trac-
	      ing information is  displayed  during  bytecode  execution.   By
	      default,	tcl_traceExec is zero and no information is displayed.
	      Setting tcl_traceExec to 1 generates a one-line trace in	stdout
	      on  each	call  to a Tcl procedure.  Setting it to 2 generates a
	      line of output whenever any Tcl command is invoked that contains
	      the name of the command and its arguments.  Setting it to 3 pro-
	      duces a detailed trace showing  the  result  of  executing  each
	      bytecode	instruction.   Note that when tcl_traceExec is 2 or 3,
	      commands such as set and incr that have been  entirely  replaced
	      by  a  sequence of bytecode instructions are not shown.  Setting
	      this variable is useful in tracking down suspected problems with
	      the  bytecode compiler and interpreter.  It is also occasionally
	      useful when converting code to use Tcl8.0.

       This variable and functionality only  exist  if	TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG  was
       defined during Tcl's compilation.

       tcl_wordchars
	      The  value  of this variable is a regular expression that can be
	      set to control what  are	considered  ``word''  characters,  for
	      instances  like  selecting  a word by double-clicking in text in
	      Tk.  It is platform dependent.  On Windows, it defaults  to  \S,
	      meaning  anything  but  a Unicode space character.  Otherwise it
	      defaults to \w, which is any  Unicode  word  character  (number,
	      letter, or underscore).

       tcl_nonwordchars
	      The  value  of this variable is a regular expression that can be
	      set to control what are considered ``non-word'' characters,  for
	      instances  like  selecting  a word by double-clicking in text in
	      Tk.  It is platform dependent.  On Windows, it defaults  to  \s,
	      meaning  any  Unicode space character.  Otherwise it defaults to
	      \W, which is anything but a Unicode word character (number, let-
	      ter, or underscore).

       tcl_version
	      When  an interpreter is created Tcl initializes this variable to
	      hold the version number for this version of Tcl in the form x.y.
	      Changes to x represent major changes with probable incompatibil-
	      ities and changes to y  represent  small	enhancements  and  bug
	      fixes  that  retain  backward  compatibility.  The value of this
	      variable is returned by the info tclversion command.

OTHER GLOBAL VARIABLES
       The following variables are only guaranteed to exist in tclsh and  wish
       executables;  the  Tcl library does not define them itself but many Tcl
       environments do.

       argc  The number of arguments to tclsh or wish.

       argv  Tcl list of arguments to tclsh or wish.

       argv0 The script that tclsh or wish started executing (if it was speci-
	     fied) or otherwise the name by which tclsh or wish was invoked.

       tcl_interactive
	     Contains  1  if tclsh or wish is running interactively (no script
	     was specified and standard input is a  terminal-like  device),  0
	     otherwise.

       The  wish  executably additionally specifies the following global vari-
       able:

       geometry
	     If set, contains the user-supplied geometry specification to  use
	     for the main Tk window.


SEE ALSO
       eval(n), tclsh(1), wish(1)


KEYWORDS
       arithmetic,  bytecode,  compiler, error, environment, POSIX, precision,
       subprocess, variables



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