From:	 Cameron Laird <claird@neosoft.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar  6)
Date:	 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:35:33 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "If you are writing [Tcl] code, you are a tcler."  Larry Virden

"[I]mplicit garbage collection simply does not work for certain types
of resources."  Kevin Kenny

"Visual Basic is to programming what colorforms is to impressionism."
Larry Smith


    The new fashion taking over Wiki references is redirection through
    wiki.tcl.tk.  Examples of its use:  <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4.html >,
    <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/rand >.

    Larry Virden's plea for an xclipboard replacement leads to
    productive code examples and a discussion of Tk selection
    deficiencies.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=dad8efa5bd0bee16
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d04950bde2335ee6

    Dave Snyderman does a great job of presenting Tcl as outsiders
    see it, with both strengths and weaknesses.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=11b14af105671a0d

    8.4a3, the first "alpha" release in six months, implements such
    significant TIPs as a new [regsub] syntax, serial port support
    under Unix and Windows, [lset], the multi-argument [lindex], more
    CONSTification of Tcl sources, 64-bit improvements, and much more.
    Higher, faster, farther:
	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html

    How can Tk work with .pbm images?  There are several ways.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8393b60e52b27454

    Yes, Tcl Blend is alive, and, yes, it has an essentially unique
    ability to manage C libraries and Java classes in a single
    application.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=92fcd3e80bb761b5

    You want to shut down a thread, but not all Tcl operations.  Is
    that possible?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=55476df73f825a83
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=db76d75333910769


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://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/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  

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