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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:29:54 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 18)
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com

    A few interesting resources on how to create a new channel type in
    C.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=703640471

    Alexander Caldwell raises the question on how to handle
    username/password in URLs for HTTP basic authentication with the
    http package.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704094937

    Have you ever wondered what happens to stdout in Tk applications?
    Here are a few answers for various platforms.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704222505

    Handling background errors explained. This applies for
    applications using Tcl's event loop, such as Tk applications,
    asynchronous I/O and timer events.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704405674

    Ioi Lam asks for a comparison of Tcl to other scripting languages
    with respect to internationalization (i18n)issues.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704611207

    Bernhard Wallner launches a discussion about the consistency of
    handling double-dashes '--' when parsing options.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704825421

    Mo DeJong proposes an improvement of the trace command.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704833604

    Various options to convert a "Julian Day" into a 'clock seconds'
    time representation.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=704891064

    Steve Ball proposes to use a different approach for building TEA
    compliant extensions.
        http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=705108855


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/

    Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity
        http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ 

    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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