From: "Matt Newman" <matt@novadigm.com> Subject: README: Tcl-URL! - the weekly guide to Tcl resources (May 31) Date: 7 Jun 1999 01:18:06 -0700 A reminder for anyone working with Tcl, in commerce or research: - Tcl/2k : The 7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference, Feb 14-18th 2000 http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482070783 John Ousterhout has anointed the first official Tcl Ambassador: Jeff Hobbs, working for Scriptics with a mandate to "to raise the level of support Scriptics provides to the Tcl community". http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=83230424 Dramatic speed improvement through minor change in use of read. (factor of 20-40!). A must for anyone reading large files. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482508145 Simple suggestion for the dreaded Octal number confusion. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=484073453 Discussion of command pipes and a clean example of using BLT's bgexec to solve this problem. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482531387 The discussion of Unicode and Tcl 8.1 performance continues. This problem is not going to go away until we get back to O(1) on string operations. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482319455 Making buttons the right size. http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=483579072 A warning about binary data in Tcl 8.0 vs. 8.1 (channels) http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482092398 Dynamic Packages. A good idea whose time is drawing near? http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=48291054 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/ Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/ 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.findmail.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 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. This week's Tcl-Url! Editor: Matt Newman <matt@sensus.org> [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]