Using tkbiff without a GUI.

This page describes how to use tkbiff without a GUI.

By default, tkbiff is run via wish (a Tcl engine with GUI support). If you run tkbiff using tclsh (a Tcl engine without GUI support), tkbiff will then merely print you have new mail from ..... upon receipt of each message. (You can change this behavior, of course.)

If you have already run tkbiff, it will have already created a GUI-style configuration file for you. Simply move that one aside and run tkbiff using tclsh. If you're on UNIX or Windows, you can also use a command-line flag to select a different one. The UNIX installation comes with a program called tclbiff that does just this. tclbiff is actually a shorthand for:

        tclsh tkbiff -cf /dev/null

If you want to modify the default non-GUI configuration, the first thing you must do is make sure you have the configuration stored in a configuration file so you can modify it. To do this, remove any existing configuration file and run tkbiff via tclsh with no additional arguments. Then edit the new configuration file.



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Go to tkbiff documentation.

Last edited: Tue Oct 8 15:49:19 EDT 2002 by Don Libes