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From: Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 18)
Date: 19 Jan 2000 00:46:23 -0800

    8.3b2 released!  The second beta of 8.3, fixing many bugs and
    adding common ISO 8601 date recognition to 'clock', plus more
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=572424002
	http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.3.html
	http://jfontain.free.fr/ (Linux RPMs)

    Snack 1.6.5 fixes several bugs.  Snack adds support for file based
    and streaming audio, as well as sound visualization
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=571281711
	http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

    Are you a Tcl user in the Silicon Valley?  Come join us at the
    first Silicon Valley Tcl Users Group on Wednesday, February 2nd
    from 18:00 to 20:00 at Scriptics World HQ
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=571461761

    Several releases of Tcl editors were made.  Fve 1.5 is a basic
    file viewer and editor.
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=571546010
	http://www.ne.jp/asahi/sasagawa/homepage/

    August 0.52 is another editor with colorization and other goodies
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=571902856
	http://www.lls.se/~johanb/august/

    and ASED v1.0 is a Tcl/Tk IDE, with more helpful features
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=573865033
	http://home.t-online.de/home/andreas.sievers/asedhome.htm

    Img 1.2.3, an extension that adds new image formats (PNG, JPEG,
    more) reaches 1.2.3 with some minor updates (also ready for Tk8.3)
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=574408842
	http://purl.oclc.org/net/nijtmans/img.html

    Bsosc, a Bitscope oscilloscope for handling the Bitscope
    data capture device is released (requires BLT).
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=572443892
	http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~jhonan/

    Ehrens provides us with a Tcl code timing package, for running
    simple timing tests in Tcl
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=571706647
	http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/671.html

    Code was posted to analyze the state of keysyms
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=571272598

    Hume Smith reaches an epiphany about the new regexps and the
    behavior of mixed greedy/non-greedy expressions
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=570802375

    Need info on NT services in Tcl?  Here are some solutions
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=571006137

    and finally Nelson looks to improve bindings for radiobuttons
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=573383986


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/

    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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