Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:43:44 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 23) From: Andrej Vckovski <andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch> Lloyd Lim discusses possible changes to the Tcl Style Guide. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=682228590 An interesting thread on accessing tapes, even on Windows! http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=682352796 A hint on how to start a JVM in TclBlend with specific parameters. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=682926061 And yet another hint and discussion on how to finalize your application when the user closes the main window. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=682521655 A few options to launch the default browser in Windows from your Tcl scripts. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=683201915 For the Newbies: Be aware that lsearch uses by default a glob-style matching! http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=682150436.1 How-to read input from the terminal http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=682435174 And how-to get a process' output to standard error when using a pipe. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=683026761 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.