From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 23)
Date: 23 May 2000 22:38:53 -0700

Memorial day is coming up in the states.. the day that hot
dog and hamburger vendors came more often, as well as outdoor
grill salesmen...

    The nesting instinct kicking in? Well, then here's a trick
    for convincing your namespaces to nest as well:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625872966
        
    If you have any groupware calandering code you'd like
    to share, or projects you'd like to talk about,
    Larry would sure like to know:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623207538
        
    Andreas shares a quick trick for situations where you
    may want to return an array, or at least close to it:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623434566
        
    Whose job is it to take out the garbage? Or do you just
    pass it around, like references? Well, conservative garbage
    collectors, this thread is for you:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623486622
        
    Jean-Luc brings us up to date with 8.3.1 rpms, including
    the Plus Patch:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl+-8.3.1-1.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl+-8.3.1-1.spec
        
    Don's quick trick for checking if a namespace exists, since
    'namespace exists' will only arrive in 8.4:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623813994
    
    Hordes of lego creations, moving about under their own
    power... all made possible through a GUI to control
    pbFORTH on the lego RCX boxes! The future is closer
    than you think:
        http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbFORTH/pbForthGUI.html
        
    WinTclSend users can now give the same tasks a try on Windows,
    making use of the 'Wind' clone of WinTclSend:
        http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/s-imai/tcltk/wind.html
    
    Editors, interpreters, extensions, oh my! People contribute
    their preferences on working environments:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=624181155
    
    PRS announces new open source widgets and a printer extension
    for Windows:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=624427086
    
    The AlphaTk text editor has been updated with some new fun
    features:
        ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/
        
    Want stubs on your BLT? Wait no longer... rpms and patches
    are available:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4q-6.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4q-6.i386.spec
        http://jfontain.free.fr/BLT2.4q.patch.gz
    

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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