On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 02:49:13PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 07:24:06AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm looking for a tutorial covering > > "cron(3tcl) cron" [.../tcllib/cron.3tcl.en.html] > > NOT "CRON(8) System Manager's Manual" [.../cron/cron.8.en.html] > > cron(3tcl) is a Tcl library (or module or what it's ever called), > not a command. So it's to be used from a Tcl program. It schedules > actions at given times whithin a running Tcl program and is not > based on its namesake (just inspired on it).
It's a package within Tcllib, apparently. Not one that I've used personally, though. > That said, "man 3tcl cron" should lead you to the man page. One > of Tcl's niceties is that its docs are available as man pages). Yeah, that works if tcllib is installed locally. Upstream documentation is also at <https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/doc/tcllib-1-19/embedded/www/tcllib/files/modules/cron/cron.html> Debian's man page is also at <https://manpages.debian.org/buster/tcllib/cron.3tcl.en.html>
