Before you send me mail of something doesn't work please check this list and see if there is something that matches your problem. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. Why is FileRunner complaining about dynamic linking not being available on my system? A. FileRunner uses the "load" command in tclsh to dynamically link in the part of FileRunner that is written in C. This makes it unnecessary to rebuild a whole new wish shell just to have a few extra commands. (So it saves a lot of RAM and time). On some older Linux platforms, the dynamic linking stuff is too old for this to work correctly. It seems that you need to update /lib/ld.so and probably also the /lib/libdl.so library. Note that the safest way of doing this is to grab a whole new set of libraries from sunsite.unc.edu (under the Linux/GCC directory) and install that. It looks like the Slackware 96 distribution has this problem and needs to be updated. When you've got the new /lib/ld.so file and the rest of that stuff you need to rebuild your Tcl/Tk stuff. (Or get a prebuilt binary, see next question). When you rebuild it, the config script will tell you whether or not dynamic linking will be available. If anyone has any more info on this or might want to correct me, please send me an email. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. Can I use beta versions of Tcl/Tk with FileRunner? A. No. (Well you can, but it is a source of bugs I don't want to handle). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. I get this error when I start up. Why? error while autoloading "load": bad option "join": should be atime, dirname, executable, exists, extention, isdirectory, isfile , lstat, mtime, owned, readable, readlink, root, size, stat, tail, type, or writable A. You have an old tcl/tk installation. Please get a new. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. I get this error when I start up FR on Linux. Why? wish4.1: can't resolve symbol 'getgrgid' wish4.1: can't resolve symbol 'statfs' A. I'm guessing you need to rebuild your tcl/tk installation. Are you running a really new libc? --------------------------------------------------------------------- For a list of known bugs, please see the file KnownBugs.txt.
