From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com> Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 2) Date: 2 May 2000 09:22:55 -0700 Administrative note: "Tcl-URL!"'s target is to appear once a week, generally early on Monday or Tuesday. While we had a lot of variance around that goal during April, we're returning now to a more predic- table schedule. It's finally spring, and young (and old) coders hearts turn to ... coding, of course! Juan Gil announces "The Simple Library", a pure-Tcl collection of commands and such. Much akin to "tcllib", but some differences do exist: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=614933666 http://simplelib.homepage.com A helpful pointer for folks using vi and vim on how to get the control character sequences for use with 'send': http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615667530 How to catch those same control chatacter sequences on UNIX and Windows NT - use TclX: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615478657 Looking converts... err, conversions for your Tcl scripts? Some thoughts about octal, hex, and floats: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=615889153 Looking for a PDF version of the 8.3 man pages? So are a bunch of other folks, and you might be able to help: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616009388 Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 is released! Get it now at: http://dev.scriptics.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html Reading width and height information straight out of a JPEG file with just a bit of code and no need for Wish to create an image: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616219191 How do we get cross platform printing? And what form do we need it in? Make your voice heard: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=616379255 Jean-Luc releases Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 Redhat RPMs, and taps his foot waiting for Jan to finish up the Plus Patch. Meanwhile, the rest of us moving at normal speed are still reading the original release announcement. http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl-8.3.1-1.i386.rpm ttp://jfontain.free.fr/tk-8.3.1-1.i386.rpm Laurent announce tclbenchmarks-0.2, to try and quantify the mysteries of command execution speed: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/misc/tclbenchmarks/0.2/ 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://dev.scriptics.com/resource/ They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://dev.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/ Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project. -- Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]