Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:33:49 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 5) From: "Richard.Suchenwirth" <richard.suchenwirth@kst.siemens.de> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Quote of the week comes from Jeffrey Hobbs: "I've come to the realization that there are so many more Java jobs than Tcl jobs because it takes 10 Java programmers to do what I can do in Tcl." http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722493477 Rodney Stephenson testifies in more concrete detail to Tcl's impact http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1220.html Find a "bug" with regexp {[ ]*(^|[^%])%V} "*%V2" m s http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722401957 How to read from, and write to, the same open file: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722333943 Jeff David shows how to parse an integer from a bitstring: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722837354 Frank Pilhofer explains why daemons should ground stdin/out/err: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722866889 Steve West reports how he rebuilt 8.3.1 from Linux RPM: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=722605411 Don Porter makes tclsh/wish read both a file and stdin: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=723030202 Jeff Hobbs advises on namespace nesting: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=724074551 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/ Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly organized resource center of documents and software with provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software and update ... as you release new versions." 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.