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 15)
Date:	 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:05:35 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "The first thing any windows user should do when they start up
a windows machine for the first time is to install vnc ..." Larry Smith

"I think expect is the best "foot in the sysadmin door". Leam Hall
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6c5ed7dc.0201100518.32cf2431%40posting.google.com

"...but IMHO you'd be quite right to avoid alpha code.  Even though
Tcl's alphas are typically better than most software's patch releases..."
Donal Fellows
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C39B903.F4FE18A1%40cs.man.ac.uk


    Weekly regexp lesson
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=be21d0d20bffdbc9

    Mult-dimension arrays
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=590703fe1b1c03

    Watching for button press
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=51a48905f122ac0e

    Hiding keyboard output to a text widget
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3ce3b15c36605476

    Recent Tcl publications include pieces in *EE Times*, *Dr. Dobbs
    Journal*, and the Intel developer site.
	http://www.eetimes.com/story/design/OEG20020103S0067
	http://www.ddj.com/articles/2002/0202/  
	http://cedar.intel.com/cgi-bin/ids.dll/content/content.jsp?cntKey=Generic%20Editorial::ws_tcl&cntType=IDS_EDITORIAL

    Exec on Windows
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=efb9ead24199ca76

    Fun with CRC
        http://mini.net/tcl/2259.html


    ANNOUNCE
    --------

    FLTK for Tcl/Tk Version 0.3
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C388778.9CE15B5%40videotron.ca

    "Compiler" 3.1 - Windows(R) *ONLY* 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=rvac1a.qn4.ln%40linux02.otto-net

    SnackAmp Tcl/Tk based MP3/OGG Player 1.6 Released
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=187eeb623d4702bc

    bras-2.1 Rule Base Command Execution 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=39e2bb50e13082a2

    Libcurl questionnaire
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a1iore%241qj5d5%40news1s.iddeo2.es

    moodss-15.5
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C3EB974.1020604%40winealley.com

    Getleft 1.0beta3 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a1ngsa%242058b4%40news1s.iddeo2.es

    SMC - State Machine Compiler v. 1.2.0
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=48637830.0201120607.338cc564%40posting.google.com
    
    gnocl 0.0.8 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201121731.2854%40non.non.net
    
    New releases for Mail (formerly tkmsmail), Print, GDI, GD extensions
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201121734.2972%40non.non.net
    
    bras-2.0, Rule Based Command Execution
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200201121744.3597%40non.non.net
    
    Toucan 1.0 - A feathered friend for the Palm
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C423372.2FFB222%40attbi.com
    
    Multi-entry widget package Mentry 2.3
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C4342CA.27EA46FA%40t-online.de
    
    Multi-column listbox package Tablelist 2.2
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C433EF2.B0ECADB%40t-online.de


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.

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