Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:34:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Richard Suchenwirth richard.suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de
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 (Feb
5)
Quote of the week comes from Jeffrey Hobbs:
“I’ve come to the realization that there are so many more Java jobs
than Tcl jobs because it takes 10 Java programmers to do what I can
do in Tcl.”
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722493477
Rodney Stephenson testifies in more concrete detail to Tcl’s
impact
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1220.html
Find a “bug” with regexp {[ ]*(^|[^%])%V} “*%V2” m s
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722401957
How to read from, and write to, the same open file:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722333943
Jeff David shows how to parse an integer from a bitstring:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722837354
Frank Pilhofer explains why daemons should ground
stdin/out/err:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722866889
Steve West reports how he rebuilt 8.3.1 from Linux RPM:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722605411
Don Porter makes tclsh/wish read both a file and stdin:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=723030202
Jeff Hobbs advises on namespace nesting:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=724074551
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/
Brent Welch maintains “The Tcl Developer Xchange”, a highly
organized resource center of documents and software with provisions
for individuals to “set up a link to your software and update …
as you release new versions.”
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/
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
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welcome.
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