Re: NS installation and configuration question

[Lloyd Wood <eep1lw@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Haobo Yu wrote:

> On FreeBSD tcl/tk are installed under different directories under
> /usr/local/{include,lib} so ns will not mess up versions. It's unclear
> what's your case, but you can always check tcl version by typing 'set
> tcl_version' inside ns. Note ns does not need tk. 

...even though it seems to be built using tk (grep tk ~ns/Makefile)
and being able to issue tk commands in the interpreter would be Very
Useful.

assorted questions:

1) nam now handles gzipped files via zlib; very handy for saving
   diskspace. What chance xgraph could do the same for large datasets?

2) What's the status of http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/doc-ns-2/ ?
   It doesn't appear to be linked to anywhere from the ns pages.

cheers,

L.

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