From: "Jeffrey Hobbs" <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 15)
Date: 15 Nov 1999 06:05:11 -0600

    Fontaine makes RPMs of Tcl/Tk 8.2.2 available:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/

    Redman explains how to use the C level Tcl code for creating
    console-based Windows apps.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=548272500

    How should you license your app?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=548101712

    What you can do in one day when building a text editor in Tcl
        http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/ged/

    fmail 1.0, allows the creation of simple rules-based apps for
    mail filtering in Tcl (like procmail or slocal)
        http://www.oche.de/%7Eakupries/soft/fmail/
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=547557327

    PySol 3, a collection of solitaire games written in Python/Tk
    is available
        http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html

    OpenVerse visual chat, GUI based cross-platform chat program,
    is at 0.7-1
        http://openverse.org/
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=546393093

    Hipp explains how to compile Tcl with cygwin
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=545876442

    Ffidl, an extension for constructing calls to C functions in
    pure Tcl is looking for update ideas
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=546539935

    EasySocket, a package for simple creation of async sockets
    is offered upon the masses
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=546699542

    Would you be interested in a Tcl/Tk conference in Europe?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=547347463

    Hint for the week:
        In moving to Tcl8.1.1+, examine where you use one or more
        regsub calls to map strings without need for pattern
        matching.  Replace these with the new [string map] command.


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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