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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:42:50 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 26)
From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com

Donal Fellows nominates Jamey Cribbs' for "post of the month":
"Here's one of the coolest things I like so far about Tcl.  Being
 able to develop a compact, modern-looking GUI based client/server
 app going against an SQL DBMS that will run identically on
 Windoze and Linux, and being able to wrap it up in a small
 executable (using the awesome Freewrap) that is easy to distribute.

 And, oh yeah, the people on the newsgroups seem to be very helpful
 and friendly so far.  . . .  [I]t is incredible.  Talk about a VB
 killer AND a great scripting language all rolled into one."

    A new pure Tcl Tree widget with drag and drop support is announced
    for the world to play with (yes, it's a pure numeric URL..):
        http://64.34.162.237

    Chris Cox announces a new version of ImPress, a Tcl based desktop
    publishing/presentation package with all sorts of fun options:
        http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/

    Wait, vwait, vwait.. but what if you're vwaiting for the wrong
    thing?  Don and Cameron hash out a small proc to cleanly wait for any
    of multiple variables to be set:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=df77aced143fb609

    Where to go for news now that Deja has gone? Well, besides Google
    there's now also one running TclNNTPD, a new open-source Tcl NNTP
    server. Check them both out:
        http://www.utcorp.net/opensource/tclnntpd/
        http://www.utcorp.net/opensource/freeusenet/

    You've got mail... well, sorta. Wait, where'd the SMTP processing
    utility go? Oh, here it is... in tclLib. And some discussion:
        http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6d8bdd567b45d2

    The thread - "Amusing misconceptions about Tcl". 'Nuff said.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cd8559176e0311c9

    Macintosh extension writers? Yes, Virginia, they do exist.. and they
    have some questions. Follow the thread here:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6da6622fd0aa307c

    Jean-Luc announces the first version of tclpython, and asks everyone
    to give it a try and see what they think. Some other discussion on
    what can be embedded within Tcl ensues...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cb665dd59d1b1de

    Microsoft's .NET and Tcl - discussion, hints at developments, and
    more discussion:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=d3fd3d3669ef3245

    Larry's wondering how everyone manages all the myriad Tcl versions
    on their servers and in their environments. Add your input...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=15531af732bb2c41

    Looking for an XML Schema validator? TclDOMPro may be the answer..
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclxml

    Tom Wilkason answers questions on methods for binding and
    filtering keyboard input:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a4200d2d7eb1398e

    Trying to make syslog entries through Tcl? Beam up Scotty, because
    it has what you're looking for...
        http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/

    Benjamin Cassan-de Gorostarzu announces vTclCheck, a graphical
    interface for the TclPro ProCheck utility:
        http://vtclcheck.sourceforge.net


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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