Tcl-URL! for December 30, 1999 | Linux Today

Tcl-URL! for December 30, 1999

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 30, 1999

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:14:43 -0600 (CST)
From: “Cameron Laird” claird@neosoft.com

Sure, computers can play chess and monitor coffee-pot levels in
Baluchistan; but who knows how to clear a tty screen? Marty Backe
reprints Bruce Gingery’s broadly informed survey
http://x38.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566244796

8.3b1 emerges
http://x41.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=564004134

http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl-8.3b1-1.i386.rpm
to the reward of a dozen new logged small Tk fault reports

Iain B. Findleton has tweaked the last Tix for compatibility
with 8.2
http://x39.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=564832303

Don Libes summarizes Expect’s essence by way of commenting on
Andrew Tannenbaum’s inspiration to [expect] his way through network
programming
http://x23.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=564208877

Chengye Mao illustrates one of the benefits of his recently-
released Xbit 2.2: multiple animations
http://x22.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565308862

Steve Ball is ready for others to see TclXML 2.0
http://x23.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565548530

Bryan Oakley and Frederic Bonnet set out on a journey to expose
Tcl’s color internals, the right way
http://x23.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=563633234

The Tcl Consortium’s passing is mourned
http://x41.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=563823826

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://www.scriptics.com/resource/

They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good
thing
http://www.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/

Previous – (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! – messages are listed
here:
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html

or

http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

Suggestions/corrections for next week’s posting are always
welcome.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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