Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:55:25 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 30) From: Andrej Vckovski <andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch> This week's big news was certainly the acquisition of Ajuba Solutions by InterWoven. Check out the *long* thread on this issue, and also the position statement of the TCT (Tcl Core Team) as well as a front-page on Linux Weekly News. http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=684808290 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=685517334 http://lwn.net/ Jean-Luc Fontaine launches a discussion on i18n-issues (internationalization) when parsing dates and times. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=684724907 Some hints on how to create "shortcuts" on Windows platforms. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=686066404 Mark Harrison argues why to include [incr Tcl] into the Core Tcl distribution. He has submitted a "TIP" (Tcl Improvement Process) request. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=686192779 For the Newbies: Tcl's powerful channel system allows various channel-specific options to be set or queried with the general fconfigure command. Those channel-specific options, however, are not documented in the fconfigure manual entry but rather with the command that creates that type of channels, e.g., socket. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=684965832 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.