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Binary releases of Tcl Blend are available for 
Solaris 2.x and Win32 built with Tcl/Tk 8.2 using 
the Sun JDK 1.1 and Sun JDK 1.2.

A binary release of Jacl is available that will
work on 1.1 or 1.2 Java Virtual Machines.

The source code distribution includes support
for other operating systems, including Linux,
Irix, HP-UX

More information and download are available at
the Scriptics web site:

        http://www.scriptics.com/java/

Tcl Blend and Jacl are also both available from the
Scriptics CVS repository under the module name
of "tcljava".

You can file bug reports via the Scriptics Bug 
Database.


Highlights:
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Jacl 1.2.5 includes support for namespaces.

Jacl now supports Unicode.

TclBlend now supports Unicode with Tcl 8.2.

TEA compliant makefile for building Tcl Blend
(soon to support Jacl as well).

New java::try command for using Java exceptions
in Tcl Blend and Jacl.

New java::import command, the equivalent of 
"import" in Java, for Tcl Blend and Jacl.

Jacl now includes a "clock" command.