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platform::shell(3tcl) Tcl Bundled Packages platform::shell(3tcl) 





NAME


platform::shell - System identification support code and
  utilities






SYNOPSIS


package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

platform::shell::generic shell
platform::shell::identify shell
platform::shell::platform shell








DESCRIPTION


The platform::shell package provides several utility
    commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl
    shell.


This package allows the identification of the architecture of a
    specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
    requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually
    executable on the current machine.


While for most platform this means that the architecture of the
    interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of the running shell
    this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have
    32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run 32bit code.
    For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit
    settings and thus different identifiers.


For applications like a code repository it is important to
    identify the architecture of the shell which will actually run the installed
    packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository
    software.






COMMANDS



  

  
This command does the same identification as platform::identify,
      for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

  

  
This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for
      the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

  

  
This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the
      specified Tcl shell.








KEYWORDS


operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture







  

    1.1.4
    platform::shell