Tcl-URL! for January 8, 2001

Jan 08, 2001, 14:41 (0 Talkback[s])

Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 06:55:56 -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 (Jan 8)

Quote of the week comes from Larry Virden:
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE TCL COMMUNITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON THE PIECES OF TCL AND LIBRARIES IN THEIR WORK OR PERSONAL LIVES TO TAKE ON A PORTION OF THE YEOMAN'S JOB OF MAINTAINING AND ENHANCING THE CODE.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710626472

Sean Levy announces GPLed network administration software:
http://64.34.162.237/

David H Bigelow explains how to plot a graph line on a canvas:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709165474

Mo DeJong shares hints how to build Tcl/Tk with Cygwin, leading to plans for a tk/cygwin build that combines Win GUI API and cygwin for all else:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711171831

K. Mead (?) demonstrates how to restart a Tk app under tkcon:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711655331

Bastien Chevreux, Miguel Sofer discuss 'scan' vs. 'split' performance:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711724180

Jos Decoster shows how to change all fonts in an app at one time:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711706939

Jon Guyer accurately explains AppleScript, MacOS versions, his own TclAE package, and related Applish matters
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=712647631

Alexander Eisenhuth seeks and finds a way how to list a directory with 10000 files
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711425376

A lively debate on spaces, slashes, backslashes in Windows pathnames starts at
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=712237185

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/

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/

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

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