From:	 Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan  1)
Date:	 Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:35:45 -0600 (CST)

QOTW: "Well, once you get past the badly written configure/make for
the package [TclCurl], it's so darn sweet it'll give you toothache."
    Phil Ehrens
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a0dnf4%244nm%40gap.cco.caltech.edu

"[W]hen you're wondering how much of a difference it really makes,
try it out!"  Ken Jones, noted Tcl trainer

    The weekly regexp lesson - getting rid of certain words in a sentence
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.LNX.4.33.0112252256100.31453-100000%40gibraltar.deseretbook.net

    killing processes and pipes
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=a0d2dr%24p22%40gap.cco.caltech.edu

    processing file contents using lists versus arrays...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3C2A4854.D9C416E9%40ActiveState.com

    Good examples of using TclCurl
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5d6e9670.0112270118.448a5bb2%40posting.google.com
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=a0oq0v%24nvn%241%40srv38.cas.org

    Fun with English plurals
        http://mini.net/tcl/2662.html


ANNOUNCEMENTS
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    New releases for Mail (formerly tkmsmail), Print, GDI, GD
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2502be93.0112262021.64178575%40posting.google.com

    xop0.3 (access to low-level X), wmenablers patch (window-manager
    management), rootwin widget (X root window)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a0hjc5%241h9%241%40news.eecs.umich.edu


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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/scripting/      

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://purl.org/mini/tcl/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://purl.org/mini/tcl/969

    ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    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

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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