From: "Matt Newman" <matt@novadigm.com>
Subject: README: Tcl-URL! - the weekly guide to Tcl resources (May 31)
Date: 7 Jun 1999 01:18:06 -0700

    A reminder for anyone working with Tcl, in commerce or research: -
    Tcl/2k : The 7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference, Feb 14-18th 2000
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482070783

    John Ousterhout has anointed the first official Tcl
    Ambassador: Jeff Hobbs, working for Scriptics with
    a mandate to "to raise the level of support Scriptics
    provides to the Tcl community".
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=83230424

    Dramatic speed improvement through minor change in use of
    read. (factor of 20-40!). A must for anyone reading large files.
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482508145

    Simple suggestion for the dreaded Octal number confusion.
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=484073453

    Discussion of command pipes and a clean example of using BLT's
    bgexec to solve this problem.
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482531387

    The discussion of Unicode and Tcl 8.1 performance continues. This
    problem is not going to go away until we get back to O(1) on string
    operations.
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482319455

    Making buttons the right size.
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=483579072

    A warning about binary data in Tcl 8.0 vs. 8.1 (channels)
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482092398

    Dynamic Packages. A good idea whose time is drawing near?
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=48291054


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://www.scriptics.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.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/

    Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce
        http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/

    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.findmail.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.

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This week's Tcl-Url! Editor: Matt Newman <matt@sensus.org>


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