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/


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