Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:52:53 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 16) From: Andrej Vckovski <andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch> 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 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 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project.