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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/


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