Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:49:54 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 12)

QOTM:  Richard Suchenwirth writes
  In Tcl, the question is less often "does
  something exist?" but "can I make it exist?"

    Reinhard Max illustrates [exec] abstrusities necessary
    when abusing Tcl 
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703992102

    Bernard Desgraupes provides Toolbox-ish "Gestalt" for Tcl
    programmers
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703949944

    Tcl manages X.25 channels!  And FIFOs!  And more!  With
    source code, of course, thanks to D. J. Hagberg, Don Libes,
    et al.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703716024

    Helpful people have been posting all sorts of example code,
    including Jos Decoster's use of the BWidgets notebook
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703474321

    Ioi Lam celebrates his return to c.l.t by launching several
    gnarly threads.  In the case of documentation, he advances
    toward a new nroff-based standard
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703681669

    Don Porter explains the evolving functionality and usage
    of packages
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=70335020

    David Cuthbert and Helmut Giese resuscitate Borland 
    compatibility
        http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=703530849

    Jeffrey Hobbs tells what's involved in SSL for Tcl
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703789980


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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