From: Donald G Porter <dgp@cam.nist.gov>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb  8)
Date: 8 Feb 2000 11:45:58 -0800

    Only one week until Tcl2K!  February 14-18, Austin TX
        http://www.usenix.org/events/tcl2k/

    Scott Redman says what he can about "What's hot at Scriptics?"
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581367703

    tclhttpd 2.3.7 replaces badly broken release 2.3.6
    Restores proper Base64 decoding with 8.1+ releases of Tcl
        http://www.scriptics.com/products/tclhttpd/

    mod_dtcl 0.7.3, an Apache module providing server parsed Tcl
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=579290139
        http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/dave/

    Agentk 1.0b4, a Tk extension providing an animation toolkit
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=580594971
        http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/m/Scott.McCrickard/agentk/

    New releases of Wcb 2.1 and Mentry 1.1
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581955744
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581955743
        http://www.nemethi.de/

    New release of the Modular OO Dynamic SpreadSheet: moodss 10.2 
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582292896
        http://jfontain.free.fr/

    Tcl/SMAPI 1.0 from IBM provides Tcl commands to interact with the
    ViaVoice speech recognition engine through SMAPI.  
        http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/tclsmapi/

    The Nebula Device from Radon Labs is a game engine which uses Tcl/Tk
        http://www.radonlabs.de/

    Gotchas when callbacks servicing events re-enter the event loop
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=579832548
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=580523872
        
    Use of [bindtags] to "subclass" the bindings of a Tk widget
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=580753477
    
    "do ... while" is a good example of creating custom control flow
    commands in Tcl
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=581096321

    Using Tcl on a 64-bit machine?  Help the Tcl developers with their
    cross-platform testing
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582113082

    A long and wide-ranging thread covering several issues about how Tcl
    packages in a "standard library" should behave so they play well
    together and with a net-aware [package] command.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=580376693
        http://pitch.nist.gov/nics/
        http://www.cogent.net/%7Eduquette/tcl/namespaces.html
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=580555863
        
    Quote of the week nominees
        "The best way to profile Tcl code is to write it and try it."
        		- Bob Techentin <techentin.robert@mayo.edu>
        "TEA makefiles are cross-platform, as long as your platform is
         GNU."		- David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>
        "A centralized registry is a great idea.  Everybody should have
         one."		- David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>


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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