Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:28:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrej Vckovski andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch
To: Dr.Dobb’s.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Dec
18)
A few interesting resources on how to create a new channel type
in C.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703640471
Alexander Caldwell raises the question on how to handle
username/password in URLs for HTTP basic authentication with the
http package.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704094937
Have you ever wondered what happens to stdout in Tk
applications? Here are a few answers for various platforms.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704222505
Handling background errors explained. This applies for
applications using Tcl’s event loop, such as Tk applications,
asynchronous I/O and timer events.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704405674
Ioi Lam asks for a comparison of Tcl to other scripting
languages with respect to internationalization (i18n)issues.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704611207
Bernhard Wallner launches a discussion about the consistency of
handling double-dashes ‘–‘ when parsing options.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704825421
Mo DeJong proposes an improvement of the trace command.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704833604
Various options to convert a “Julian Day” into a ‘clock seconds’
time representation.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704891064
Steve Ball proposes to use a different approach for building TEA
compliant extensions.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=705108855
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/
Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT)
activity
http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/
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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