Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:56:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Donald G Porter dgp@cam.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Feb
15)
Lots of software released this week to coincide with Tcl2K.
Tcl/Tk 8.3.0 released. Incorporates much of the Img and Dash
patches.
http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html
Tcl Developer Xchange debuts. Includes read access to the bug
database for Tcl, Tk, and many popular extensions, and more.
http://dev.scriptics.com/
TclX 8.2.0 released. Extended Tcl for Unix system
programming.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582929646
ezsmtp 1.0.0 released. SMTP e-mail package.
http://www.millibits.com/djh/tcl/
Snack 1.7alpha1 released. Sound extension.
http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
TkGS project announces a draft implementation. TkGS is a
replacement for Tk’s Xlib emulation layer on Win32 and MacOS.
http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/Tcl/TkGS/
TclXML 2.0a2 released.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=584072317
Instrumenting [proc] to find unused code.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=582680407
What variables are set by a script? Use a slave interpreter.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=585397943
Beware [clock scan “”] in pre-8.3 Tcl!
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=583413551
Why self-reposting [after] doesn’t lead to infinite
recursion.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=584558891
Proposals and counter-proposals for enhancing [package
require].
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=581270914
Quote of the week nominees:
"...two possible solutions to a problem: a) Understand it and
solve it ... b) use fuzzy logic or neural nets"
- Harald Kirsch
"Windows isn't perfect, but nothing better has come along."
- Rick Stricker
"Tcl is often amazing, but not really difficult."
- Richard Suchenwirth
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/
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here:
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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