NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
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DESCRIPTION

       The  platform::shell  package  provides  several  utility  commands  useful for the identification of the
       architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This package allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl  shell  different  from  the
       shell  running  the  package.  The  only requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is
       actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is  identical  to  the
       architecture  of  the running shell this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which
       have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run 32bit code.  For  these  running  and
       interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For  applications  like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which
       will actually run the installed packages, versus the architecture of the  shell  running  the  repository
       software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
              This  command  does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in
              contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
              This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified  Tcl  shell,  in
              contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
              This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture