From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2018 - 14:57:10 CDT

Brian,
  You can compile VMD from source against Tcl 8.6.x, but you'll have
to update the startup scripts that are encapsulated in the src directory
vmd/lib/scripts/* to ensure it picks up the Tcl 8.6.x versions of the
init.tcl and such. Let me know if you need help with this.

Best,
  John

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:04:01PM +0000, Bennion, Brian wrote:
> Just curious if vmd 1.9.3 supports tcl 8.6.
> I would like to take advantage of newer packages in my vmd analysis
> scripts.
> Thanks
> Brian
>
> ---

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