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From:	 Stuart Cassoff <stwo@sympatico.ca>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct  6)
Date:	 Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:43:09 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  "The fastest route from one bit of your brain to the other is
often out your mouth and back in through your ears!"  "When in doubt,
consider 'clever' a pejorative."  "I've been reading the TIP's on list
operations and I have to say that when lassign, lset (and possibly
head/tail) are implemented, Tcl will be a *superb* list processing
language."

    Peter DeRijk gives us Tcl Database Interface:  "A generic
    Tcl interface for accessing different SQL databases."  Very
    nice, but I still can't read my Pfs:File phonebook! :(
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB45A81.7620B60B%40fujitsu-siemens.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D150%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    *Programming Linux Games* is a new book which features Tcl.
    A just-released excerpt shows how to build a simple scripting
    engine and design a game script.
        http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1420/urmb29/book29.htm           

    New! Alpha Tk::MDI (Multiple Document Interface)
    Personally I've never tried it, but I've only heard good things.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9p1tmi%241e75%241%40agate.berkeley.edu&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    TIP #64: Improvements to Windows Font Handling
    This one's turning out to be a little tricky so give Chris a hand.
    I can only do so by way of applause.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?start=125&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200109280720.1845%40non.non.net
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8a05133ef8d41599
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5390b812ce34a40

    Some details of threading are still being worked out.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6t59rtg5mfdhvcrf4nmcqauiipmdrq6tte%404ax.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    TIP #63: Add -compound Option to Menu Entries
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB4C837.E58C03D2%40pinebush.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    Vincent Wartelle announces zdoc.tcl, a doc generator for tcl.
    Not for me - I rely on 75-char variable names for documentation.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?start=125&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BB4D745.9DFB150B%40oklin.com
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200110041318.22824%40non.non.net
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cd2d87db9750df8b

    What is legal status of icons from tclpro?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=64ddc6fc182f2f4b

    NEW 'tclapps' module.  Also new Tk interface to the Tcler's chat.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3bb50713%240%243842%40echo-01.iinet.net.au&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    Expect on Win NT development continues
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rjubrtk9c3o49bfpag2jde20k3d10adc7l%404ax.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D100%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    Moodss has a shorter release cycle than my grandfather.
    Jean-Luc Fontaine cranks it up a notch to 14.6
        http://groups.google.com/groups?start=100&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BB84C88.2020905%40winealley.com

    TIP #34: Modernize TEA build system.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB8FE19.2A859C52%40nospam.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    Euro symbol encoding continued
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB94481.A0ED5F1E%40ActiveState.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    Namespaces and packages
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3bb99e31%240%24223%244d4ebb8e%40businessnews.de.uu.net&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=95673e59.0110020623.28e9cf59%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl

    Dynamic generation of TCL code within TCL code continued
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5f6aee89df42e920

    TIP #65: Enhanced [info args]
        http://groups.google.com/groups?start=50&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200110021039.2212%40non.non.net

    Mac server socket port 0 continued
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2b11ae4d8dfdc320

    Binary Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 distro for WinNT/Alpha available
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1dc3e8a00f97941e

   TIP #66: questions surrounding embedded and standalone Tcl
      http://groups.google.com/groups?start=25&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BBC4812.45F9A86C%40wldelft.nl

   Thread your grep.
   (And I wonder why non computer people can't understand me)
      http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b59fc476de95157a

    Preparing for Tcl/Tk 8.3.4
        http://groups.google.com/groups?start=25&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BBBDC80.72B1A6AE%40ActiveState.com


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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome

    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/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.com/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/0.html
    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

    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

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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