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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:45:50 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 14)
From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com

QOTW from Rick Hedin:  "... After spending a year messing with Java,
we moved the project to Tcl/Tk.  Guess what?  It works."

Please note: Due to Google's purchase of Deja.com on February
12, links to articles are in a bit of a mess. Rather than put in
links which may be dead in a week, this week's focus is on
things that can be summarized and links that shouldn't go
away any time real soon. As soon as links are happier, we'll
put 'em back in. Thanks for your patience...

    Thinking of forming your own country? Well, you'll need a flag.. 
    so why not try a Tcl extension that makes one for you? Richard
    Suchenwirth put up the following Wiki page to show how:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1223.html
 
    Images not working right through the HTTP package? George Petasis
    has a possible solution: binary scan. 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=725052237

    Tcl-Url important note: You may notice that links to original
    articles no longer points to Deja.com - they were purchased
    February 12, 2001 by Google.com, and at the moment there's a
    question as to where the data will end up. Apologies for any
    bad links in the interim...

    Jean-Luc Fontaine announces tclperl-2.1, with improvements including
    multiple interpreters. Get it at:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl-2.1.tar.gz
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl-2.1-1.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl-2.1-1.spec
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl.htm

    Jean-Luc keeps right on going by announcing version 13.1 of moodss,
    (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet), available at:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-13.1.tar.gz
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-13.1-1.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-13.1-1.spec

    Hey, Mac users! Mats Bengtsson announces a native message box for
    Mac OS 8.0 and higher. It's available here:
        http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/download/MovableAlerts.sit
  
    The Tcl Improvement Process (TIP) continues on, and TIPs #11 and
    #19 have been added to the list. For details, see:
        http://www.scriptics.com:8080/cgi-bin/tct/tip/11.html
        http://www.scriptics.com:8080/cgi-bin/tct/tip/19.html

    Wondering about an open-source interface builder? One recommendation
    from the studio audience: vtcl.
        http://vtcl.sourceforge.net
  
    The Tcl Core Team (TCT) is looking for some volunteers to take
    responsibility for certain functional areas. Want to enlist?
        email:  tcl-core@lists.sourceforge.com 
  
    Offering Tcl Training classes? People would like to know,
    so make sure you're on the list! 
        http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/community/commercial/training/ 
  
    Mac users - here's a build of Itcl 3.1 for 8.3.2 from Daniel Steffen,
    in case you were running into incompatibility problems...
    Binaries:
        http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/itcl/Mac_Itcl3.1_8.3.2p1.sit.bin
    Sources:
        http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/itcl/Mac_Itcl3.1_8.3.2p1_Src.sit.bin

    Wondering where Jeff Hobbs went? He's still the Tcl Guy, but now he's
    at ActiveState. Good news for Tcl availability and visibility, see the
    ActiveState website in a week or two for details:
        http://www.activestate.com

    Miguel Sofer has eye-popping early results from a new optimizer.
    Stay tuned for more on this subject.  Also, Donal Fellows reported
    a "win-win" patch for those working with large collections of small
    in-memory strings (like the ordered list of all characters in a
    byte stream).
	http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103709&group_id=10894
    
    When is 8.4 going to be released? What about 9.0? Well, the former is
    a pretty stable alpha, and may soon be moving to stable beta with
    Jeff's new "100% Tcl" job. The latter, well, it may be a while before
    enough major features make it worth the new designator of "9.0".

    Iain B Findleton announces an update to the Image 1.0 package for
    Windows.  It fixes some stuff and enhances some stuff; go here
        http://pages.infinit.net/cclients
    for details


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/


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