Tcl 8.1a1/Tk 8.1a1 Release Announcement
January 22, 1998

This message is to announce the 8.1a1 releases of the Tcl scripting
language and the Tk toolkit.  The most important new features in these
releases are full Unicode support for internationalization and a new
regular expression package that supports nearly all of the Perl features.

The "a1" in the release names indicates that these are the first
"alpha" releases.  The "alpha" means that the releases are likely to
have bugs and are not yet feature-complete: we may add new features
or change some of the existing features before the final 8.1 releases.
Please let us know immediately about any problems you uncover with
these releases.

Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl 8.1 and Tk 8.1 are available by public FTP from ftp.sunlabs.com in
the directory /pub/tcl.  The easiest way to retrieve them is via the Web
page for the 8.1 releases:
	http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/8.1.html
This Web page also contains additional information about the releases,
including new features, potential incompatibilities, and known problems.

For additional information:
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See the Web site for SunScript, the Sun team dedicated to Tcl and Tk.
This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, applications such as SpecTcl and the
Tcl plugin, and tools for integrating Tcl and Java.  Visit the following
URL:
    http://sunscript.sun.com