Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 06:55:09 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 8) From: "Richard.Suchenwirth" <richard.suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Quote of the week comes from Larry Virden: THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE TCL COMMUNITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON THE PIECES OF TCL AND LIBRARIES IN THEIR WORK OR PERSONAL LIVES TO TAKE ON A PORTION OF THE YEOMAN'S JOB OF MAINTAINING AND ENHANCING THE CODE. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710626472 Sean Levy announces GPLed network administration software: http://64.34.162.237/ David H Bigelow explains how to plot a graph line on a canvas: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709165474 Mo DeJong shares hints how to build Tcl/Tk with Cygwin, leading to plans for a tk/cygwin build that combines Win GUI API and cygwin for all else: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711171831 K. Mead (?) demonstrates how to restart a Tk app under tkcon: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711655331 Bastien Chevreux, Miguel Sofer discuss 'scan' vs. 'split' performance: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711724180 Jos Decoster shows how to change all fonts in an app at one time: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711706939 Jon Guyer accurately explains AppleScript, MacOS versions, his own TclAE package, and related Applish matters http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=712647631 Alexander Eisenhuth seeks and finds a way how to list a directory with 10000 files http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=711425376 A lively debate on spaces, slashes, backslashes in Windows pathnames starts at http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=712237185 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/ 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.