What This Guide Contains

Here is an overview of the material in this book.

Chapter 1, "What Tcl Offers," describes the advantages of working with Tcl and offers an introduction to various programming tools related to Tcl.
Chapter 2, "Common Tcl Extensions," enumerates available Tcl extensions and related components that are included with SGITCL.
Chapter 3, "Custom SGITCL Extensions," lists the Tcl extensions that are available only with SGITCL.
Chapter 4, "Using Tcl Motif," offers an extended description of Tcl Motif, which allows you to produce real Motif(TM) applications.
Appendix A, "Extending Tcl," describes how to extend Tcl yourself, using C or C++ programs bound as Tcl procedures.