From: "Jeffrey Hobbs" <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov  8)
Date: 8 Nov 1999 23:13:15 -0800

    Headlining it all, Tcl/Tk 8.2.2 was released, patch release that
    has endured Pure'ification.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545040370
        http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html

    And of course Nijtmans follows with his Dash patch (note new
    home page for Jan) which enhances Tk, primarily the canvas
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545342788
        http://purl.oclc.org/net/nijtmans/dash.html

    Paul Duffin ponders for us the issues for deleting an active
    eval, as well as introducing a proposal for improved Async handlers
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=538816106

    TclBlend and Jacl, blurring the lines and tying Tcl to Java,
    have reached 1.2.5
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=543997203
        http://www.scriptics.com/products/java/

    trfcrypt 2.0 is ready, an add-on for Trf (the transforms extension)
    that provides crypt-algorithms
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=
        http://www.oche.de/%7Eakupries/soft/trfcrypt/

    Chris Nelson announces his new book, "The Tcl/Tk Programmer's
    Reference", described as "man pages on steroids", with some
    favorable reviews.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=543167088

    Ishido, a game rewritten in Tcl/Tk was announced
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=543984207

    Moodss, a modular OO spreadsheet for Unix with some sysadmin
    utilities, reaches 9.3
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545308052
        http://jfontain.free.fr/

    A frameset extension was announced - it manipulates data
    structures called 'frames' (Minsky).
        http://home.att.net/~cafugate/

    Tcl + Java = A match made for scripting
	http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-jacl.html

    Mk4Tcl 1.2, an embedded database, is released
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=544775242
        http://www.equi4.com/metakit/tcl.html


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.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/


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