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 (Apr 16)
Date:	 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:42:04 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  "Both the 8.3.4 and 8.4 head have been purified 100% through their
test suites." -- Jeff Hobbs

"In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on
the TeX project is that software is hard."   Donald Knuth

"Does VFS promise to make local computing as complicated as distributed
computing?"   DGP

"Developers should work on becoming more comfortable using existing
extensions or writing their own rather than expecting an all-in-one
language."  Larry Virden
      
"Anyway, we're a fairly eclectic community so there's always room for
different approaches."  Steve Landers


    3rd European Tcl/Tk User Meeting, Call for papers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CB31BF1.665E508%40t-ide.com
    
    Saving configuration/settings of an application.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=50daf0a172fdb1a2
    
    Returning values > 127 to OS.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=16535af109239411
    
    ISO: A few minutes of expert Borland Windows developer time
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=69f09f18a9983e45
    
    To object or not to object, $this (is a/has a) the question.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a988675a264e142d
    
    NeXT-Style Scrollbar widget
        http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3CB67BA3.C79B7551%40ActiveState.com
    
    Freeing memory / Tcl_DeleteInterp / Tcl_Finalize.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=84915876eae0bea2
    
    [expr] errors and error messages.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ed59c24ef24be225
    
    Tcl from VB.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5788342000f3dc6c
    
    WinHelp
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=81b098e041f4233
    
    "Compiler" 3.3 beta 2
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=a90rm4%24omb%241%40linux02.otto-net
    
    New release of TkDND (1.0a2)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200204121050.1933%40despot.non.net
    
    Animated Particle System
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=ubk8n0rjnotmd8%40corp.s
    upernews.com
    
    htmlgen and xmlgen 1.1
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a6f9f5157a6db654
    
    XOTcl 0.9.4
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e5c3305c24c2964a
    
    File Finder
        http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=44a3c09d.0204130514.6125f32e%40posting.google.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://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  

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