Tcl-URL! for October 30, 2000

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:53:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrej Vckovski andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 30)

This week's big news was certainly the acquisition of Ajuba Solutions by InterWoven. Check out the *long* thread on this issue, and also the position statement of the TCT (Tcl Core Team) as well as a front-page on Linux Weekly News.
http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=684808290
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=685517334
http://lwn.net/

Jean-Luc Fontaine launches a discussion on i18n-issues
(internationalization) when parsing dates and times.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=684724907

Some hints on how to create "shortcuts" on Windows platforms.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=686066404

Mark Harrison argues why to include [incr Tcl] into the Core Tcl distribution. He has submitted a "TIP" (Tcl Improvement Process) request.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=686192779

For the Newbies:
Tcl's powerful channel system allows various channel-specific options to be set or queried with the general fconfigure command. Those channel-specific options, however, are not documented in the fconfigure manual entry but rather with the command that creates that type of channels, e.g., socket.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=684965832

Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html

Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/

NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/

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http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html or
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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