From: Donald G Porter <dgp@cam.nist.gov>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 15)
Date: 15 Feb 2000 23:30:32 -0800

Lots of software released this week to coincide with Tcl2K.

    Tcl/Tk 8.3.0 released.  Incorporates much of the Img and
    Dash patches.
        http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html

    Tcl Developer Xchange debuts.  Includes read access to the bug
    database for Tcl, Tk, and many popular extensions, and more.
        http://dev.scriptics.com/

    TclX 8.2.0 released.  Extended Tcl for Unix system programming.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582929646

    ezsmtp 1.0.0 released.  SMTP e-mail package.
        http://www.millibits.com/djh/tcl/

    Snack 1.7alpha1 released.  Sound extension.
        http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

    TkGS project announces a draft implementation.  TkGS is a replacement
    for Tk's Xlib emulation layer on Win32 and MacOS.
        http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/Tcl/TkGS/

    TclXML 2.0a2 released.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=584072317

    Instrumenting [proc] to find unused code.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=582680407

    What variables are set by a script?  Use a slave interpreter.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=585397943

    Beware [clock scan ""] in pre-8.3 Tcl!
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=583413551

    Why self-reposting [after] doesn't lead to infinite recursion.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=584558891

    Proposals and counter-proposals for enhancing [package require].
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=581270914

    Quote of the week nominees:
        "...two possible solutions to a problem: a) Understand it and
         solve it ...  b) use fuzzy logic or neural nets"
            - Harald Kirsch <kir@iitb.fhg.de>
        "Windows isn't perfect, but nothing better has come along."
            - Rick Stricker 
        "Tcl is often amazing, but not really difficult."
            - Richard Suchenwirth <Richard.Suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de>


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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