Tcl-URL! for May 2, 2000

Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:21:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bill Schongar bschonga@cisco.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (May
2)

Administrative note: “Tcl-URL!”‘s target is to appear once a
week, generally early on Monday or Tuesday. While we had a lot of
variance around that goal during April, we’re returning now to a
more predic- table schedule.

It’s finally spring, and young (and old) coders hearts turn to
… coding, of course!

Juan Gil announces “The Simple Library”, a pure-Tcl collection
of commands and such. Much akin to “tcllib”, but some differences
do exist:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=614933666

http://simplelib.homepage.com

A helpful pointer for folks using vi and vim on how to get the
control character sequences for use with ‘send’:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615667530

How to catch those same control chatacter sequences on
UNIX and Windows NT – use TclX:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615478657

Looking converts… err, conversions for your Tcl scripts? Some
thoughts about octal, hex, and floats:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615889153

Looking for a PDF version of the 8.3 man pages? So are a bunch
of other folks, and you might be able to help:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616009388

Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 is released! Get it now at:
http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html

Reading width and height information straight out of a JPEG file
with just a bit of code and no need for Wish to create an
image:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616219191

How do we get cross platform printing? And what form do we need
it in? Make your voice heard:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616379255

Jean-Luc releases Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 Redhat RPMs, and taps his foot
waiting for Jan to finish up the Plus Patch. Meanwhile, the rest of
us moving at normal speed are still reading the original release
announcement.
http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl-8.3.1-1.i386.rpm
ttp://jfontain.free.fr/tk-8.3.1-1.i386.rpm

Laurent announce tclbenchmarks-0.2, to try and quantify the
mysteries of command execution speed:

http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/misc/tclbenchmarks/0.2/

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/

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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