Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 04:28:14 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 9) From: "Hall, Leam" <LHall@rosenbluth.com> Daniel Sidobre shows how to raise an error if you try to reuse a proc name. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=678015455 Eric Melski shows how to wrap a proc. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=678683704 Doug Hughes gives code for running a tcl interpreter over telnet, from an NT host. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=678319119 Donal K. Fellows has code for screen dumps. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=678206228 Bob Techentin shows how to use a command processor on Win*. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=677036716 For the Newbies: Steve Offutt helps clarify when to use a widget name or the variable associated with it. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=678654614 Dan Kuchler shows how to use "args" for procs with a variable number of arguments. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=677745620 Though there is a drawback: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=677747116 Laurent Duperval gives a snippet to load a file into a list. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=677858962 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.