Two of Minibase's graphical viewers have not yet been ported up to the latest versions of Tk/Tcl. To use them, you'll need to get the file vis2.tar.gz from the ftp site, which contains the viewer code along with an older version of the Tk/Tcl distribution that they require.
This is an interactive interface to minibase's BTree code, it uses the btree_wish interpreter, which is basically tree_wish plus some code from minibase.
Unfortunately, this is tree_wish version 3.6.2, which requires iTcl 1.5. Various attempts to port this this stuff up to TkTree 4.0 haven't gone too well. The code is written in OO-style for iTcl 1.5, which is significantly different from iTcl 2.0.
Using btview.
This is a viewer for Trace files from the Buffer Manager; it uses the btree_wish interpreter, which is basically tree_wish plus some code from minibase.
Unfortunately, this is tree_wish version 3.6.2, which requires iTcl 1.5. Various attempts to port this this stuff up to TkTree 4.0 haven't gone too well. The code is written in OO-style for iTcl 1.5, which is significantly different from iTcl 2.0.
This code uses no trees, it could probably get by with a plain itkwish 1.5 interpreter with some effort; perhaps even itkwish 2.0. The problem is, it also uses many of the libraries that came with TkTree 3.6.2; and the author has not yet ported them to iTcl 2.0.
Using bmview.
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January 6, 1997