From: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 1) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:35:45 -0600 (CST) QOTW: "Well, once you get past the badly written configure/make for the package [TclCurl], it's so darn sweet it'll give you toothache." Phil Ehrens http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a0dnf4%244nm%40gap.cco.caltech.edu "[W]hen you're wondering how much of a difference it really makes, try it out!" Ken Jones, noted Tcl trainer The weekly regexp lesson - getting rid of certain words in a sentence http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.LNX.4.33.0112252256100.31453-100000%40gibraltar.deseretbook.net killing processes and pipes http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=a0d2dr%24p22%40gap.cco.caltech.edu processing file contents using lists versus arrays... http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3C2A4854.D9C416E9%40ActiveState.com Good examples of using TclCurl http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5d6e9670.0112270118.448a5bb2%40posting.google.com http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=a0oq0v%24nvn%241%40srv38.cas.org Fun with English plurals http://mini.net/tcl/2662.html ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- New releases for Mail (formerly tkmsmail), Print, GDI, GD http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2502be93.0112262021.64178575%40posting.google.com xop0.3 (access to low-level X), wmenablers patch (window-manager management), rootwin widget (X root window) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a0hjc5%241h9%241%40news.eecs.umich.edu 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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/ The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://www.tcl-tk.net/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/mini/tcl/0 For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..." http://purl.org/mini/tcl/969 ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl 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. 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.