Bernt Hansen <bernt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >The error text generated when your version of Tcl is too old is >translated with msgcat (mc) before msgcat is initialized. This >causes Tcl to abort with: > > Error in startup script: invalid command name "mc" > >We now initialize msgcat first before we check the Tcl version. Msgcat >is available since Tcl 8.1. > This doesn't quite work. [file normalize] was introduced with Tcl 8.4 and when I test this by starting it using Tcl 8.3 I get an error: "bad option "normalize": must be atime, attributes, channels..." from line 11014. It is probably sufficient to just drop the [file normalize] here. On Windows $argv0 is fully qualified and [file dirname] works ok on it. By removing the [file normalize] I get the expected error dialog when testing with 8.3. However, on Windows we actually get a better looking result by not catching the [package require Tcl 8.4] and just letting Tk bring up a standard message box with the version conflict error message. Well, actually if show_error just used tk_messageBox it would look better on Windows. -- Pat Thoyts http://www.patthoyts.tk/ PGP fingerprint 2C 6E 98 07 2C 59 C8 97 10 CE 11 E6 04 E0 B9 DD -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html