Re: EMC on a 386 and a remote TkEMC under Win98?

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve wrote:
> I have not run the Tcl/EMC files on Windows, but I would think the Tcl/EMC
> code that is written for Linux should run under Tcl/Windows as the
> code should be portable. Pull the Tcl source from the EMC distribution
> and try it on your windows machine, the GUI should at least come up.
> 
> Steve
> 
<snipped>

The reason that Fred suggested that you would need to get emcsh for
windows is that this file not only connects tcl stuff to the EMC but it
defines a bunch of Tcl commands, all of them beginning with emc_???.  If
these commands are not available in the shell that is running tkemc or
tkbackplot, you will get error messages when you try to start up the tcl
gui.  Under linux these error messages show up in the virtual terminal
window from which you commanded the running of tkemc.  I don't know where
you would find them on a windows machine.

This whole thing is tightly woven together.  It's like a line of
dominos, they have to fall in order for you to get to the end.

Tkemc or tkbackplot requires emcsh
Emcsh requires a running EMC

So the first thing to do is set up emc and get it running on one machine. 
Then get the emcsh shell script for windows, then get the tkemc for
windows or adjust the tkemc file to find emcsh on the windows machine.