From:	 kennykb@acm.org (Kevin Kenny)
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun  4)
Date:	 Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:05:56 -0500 (CDT)

This was a slow week, since it contained Memorial Day, Pentecost, and
Shevuot.  Many people were traveling rather than Tcl'ing.

QOTW: Bob Techentin: Come to think of it, put a CD with the latest
Tcl/Tk, ActiveTcl, TclPro, and extensions in your back pocket, and
take it to your new job.  You might be surprised how quickly it could
come in handy.
    http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a66554719efcb55b
Also noteworthy, from the director of the Tcl Consortium:  "The
lawyers can make rules, but these guys (open source programmers) will
find a way to get around them.  . . . [C]orporate intelligence is
slightly lower than the dumbest member of the board of directors of
that corporation.  The uppermost echelons of large corporate entities
really do deep down to be controlling and monopolistic.  They
recognize that ... much of what they want is illegal ... but that
doesn't stop them from trying ..."
    http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/features/salus.html?dwzone=opensource

    Extensive discussions this week on making Tcl work better with 64-bit
    integers.  Alas, Google disconnected the thread:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a191cfc52b37f2b7
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=9a37f1ce1225e6f7
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=fd4989816cb2a16e
    
    David Gravereaux posts a sample bit of code that lets an extension
    compile under 8.0 or later releases without needing changes to the
    source code.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ea512d79b73c6160
    
    Dieter Ruppert posts a recipe for building TclPro from the sources at
    SourceForge.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=1890b5cbb15b78a
    
    Marty Backe shows how to find the directory in which the main script
    lives, even when the script was launched from a symbolic link:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1710.html
    
    The Tcl Developers' Exchange (variously named dev.scriptics.com,
    dev.ajubasolutions.com, tcl.activestate.com) gets a PURL:
        http://www.purl.org/net/tclhome
    

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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/

    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://mini.net/tcl/969.html

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.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
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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