Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:51:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrej Vckovski andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Oct
16)
A hint and patch to make freewrap and oratcl work together on
Windows platform.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679717029
Chris Nelson launches an interesting thread discussing the
behavior of ‘glob {}’, that is, matching files with a zero-length.
filename. Some interesting platform-dependencies are
discovered!
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679800976
Mark Harrison and Andreas Kupries report on the Tcl Core
Team
(TCT) activities.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679819548
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679865786
There is some disagreement on how to efficiently count
characters in large text widgets.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679838952
Andreas Kupries proposes a source data format for ‘Tcl
Improvement Proposals’ (TIPs) that are easy to write, read and
search.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679894423
An interesting thread launched by Philip Newton discusses
various methods to replace elements in sub-lists.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=680172043
For the Newbies:
Ever wanted to do networking with Tcl? This thread explains why you
might not need an additional extension for that and gives you a
pointer to Mo DeJong’s EasySocket package if you need an
extension.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=679787312
A small tip on how to determine the platform your application is
running on and a hint on how to find such information yourself.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=680725256
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
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http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/
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