They said Mac is easy to use
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Well, we have a new Apple machine  at work - the MacBook Neo. Yes, that
think which  looks like a computer  but has old phone  internals. Looks
good, of course. But...

Well, we have it for travelling.  That means generally just the e-mail,
some  basic WWW  browsing/searching, a  bit of  note taking,  and maybe
reading of  various stuff in  PDF. For that  things it should  be fully
adequate.

But, of  course, I  wished to do  a little  bit more. I  do have  a few
Tcl/Tk  programs which  I  sometimes  wish to  use  or  to showcase  to
someone. And the MacOS is said to have the Tcl/Tk interpreter build in.

So  yes, it  does have  the Tcl/Tk  8.6. You  can click  on the  Tcl/Tk
program and it will start. Easy, of course.


But only in  theory. You are warned that this  feature is not supported
and  may be  removed. And  it is  buggy. While  menu, buttons  and such
things seem to work (I didn't tried  much) the canvas simply does no at
all. It even did not appear.

That Mac is of course user friendly. You don't need to use that terrible command line that all. At least anyone will tell you that.

So you have to go to the  HomeBrew page, apply their bas command (which
includes  curl and  other  thing)  to install  it.  You  are of  course
friendly warned by the OS that you should not run commands from WWW...

You  can install  Tcl 9.0  by  default. I  keep  all my  codes Tcl  8.0
compatible (and some 7.0  to be able to run them on  my SGI IRIS Indigo
R3000) and while Tcl 9.0 is  MOSTLY backward-compatible, it is not 100%
so my codes are not executed here (some are, some don't start). You can
install  Tcl/Tk 8.6  but  need to  modify the  PATH  variable by  hand.
Doable, of ocurse, but not as user friendly as advertised.


Grrrr.



Written on the SGI O2 in the Vim.