From:	 "Stuart Cassoff",stwo@sympatico.ca
To:	 Dr.@starbase.neosoft.com, Dobb's@starbase.neosoft.com,
	 Tcl-URL@starbase.neosoft.com, distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 25)
Date:	 Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:12:27 -0600 (CST)

QOTW:  "Remember, Tcl's strings are completely binary safe; it's better
than C (unless you do a ridiculous amount of work) in that respect."
Donal K. Fellows (with evidentiary exemplary code)

"Dude.  It works."   bobs5

    
    TIP #88: EXTEND TCL PROCESS ID CONTROL VIA 'PID'
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b8d27d58d644b956
    
    TIP #89: TRY/CATCH EXCEPTION HANDLING IN THE CORE
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl.announce&selm=pgpmoose.200203141044.16418%40despot.non.net
    
    TIP #90: ENABLE [RETURN -CODE] IN CONTROL STRUCTURE PROCS
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200203181013.27945%40despot.non.net
    
    Different ways to [source], to obtain #include-like functionality.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=826fdb62aae8c788
    
    Paths & package loading.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=28478cf10718b5a1
    
    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's SooooooooperGrid!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5d8dcc7e2f53a47b
    
    Register hotkeys on Windows.  Ouch!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e0e636266450c94a
    
    Expecting Expect? (for Win32) - Progress has been made! Go Dave, go!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a0f838977055fc8c
    
    Web site development with Tcl?  Of course!  A veritable cornucopia
    of solutions.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=16be6c39321cffa2
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=92d16500077f7708
    
    Using tcllib::cmdline::getoptions
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3062e29258fd97cd
    
    Determining file type - Question results in 'fileType' being added
    to Tcllib.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=805e75f6367bff90
    
    More insight into the 'Tk 2 second raise delay' problem
    Initial discussion:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=70928895f15a2684
    Solution? 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=slrna9tv8s.379.fp%40rose.fpx.de
    
    Bruce Hartweg gives a concise drag&drop tutorial in this thread.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3d2200381d7cad36
    
    Icon library.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=VTlxBAAqHjn8Ewie%40satisoft.com
    
    "Compiler" for MacOs - Domo arigoto, Mr. AOtto.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b322f4bf558675ce
    
    Toucan 1.1 - A feathered friend for the Palm.  (Very cool!)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200203250634.13333%40despot.non.net
    
    SMC - The State Machine Compiler v. 1.3.2
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl.announce&selm=pgpmoose.200203181010.27875%40despot.non.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.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://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/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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