TkZip - Limitations and Dependencies in the Current Release

• The program requires at least Tcl/Tk release 7.4/4.0. Plans to support 3.6 were dropped as of December, 1996, with the release of Tcl/Tk 8.0.
  It does not require any of the popular toolkit extensions.
  Some functions, such as the color customization dialogue, are disabled under versions of Tk older than 4.2.
• Windows support is pretty solid now. It is still a bit clumsy and inelegant to install, though, and not as well documented as I'd like. I plan to address that by releasing a Starpack version for Windows.
• The builtin installer is pretty clunky and unintuitive. I plan to replace that.
• At present, no global location for the options file is searched - it uses $Home/.TkZip.rc or nothing. (There is no need to create/edit this file, all options are set from within the program.)
• Diskette device names are assumed to start with "fd", and a variety of commonly used tape devices is recognized (including "ftape").
  Tape positioning support for multi-file non-rewinding tapes was added in 0.5.21.
  No support for multi-volume archives yet. Sorry.
• The program is happiest on a system that has GNU tar/gzip. (You would be too.)
  To get the most out of the program, you should have GNU tar/gzip, bzip2 and Info-ZIP (zip/unzip) installed. (If you're running on a system for which these programs are not available, you should consider changing systems.) For links to the download locations for these standard compression/archiving utilities, see the Info-ZIP home page.

• Replace the klunky builtin installer.
• Build a Starpack release for Windows users.
• Redesign the color/scrollbar appearance dialogue. It's ugly.
• Revisit the idea of redesigning the GUI altogether.
• Major code refactoring.

For the most part, if I knew about them, they wouldn't be there. But, since no non-trivial piece of software is 100% free of bugs, I will list things here that I have discovered or had reported, but haven't gotten around to fixing yet.

• A nit. The column headings of the archive directory listings don't scroll horizontally with the listing. Betcha didn't even notice.
  It's a design flaw, not a code bug, so it isn't likely to change soon.

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