2005-01-27
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QOTW:  "...   I saw both clueless, annoying users and, I confess it, there
were times I was a clueless, annoying help desk person.

It's an eternal struggle and I don't see any possibility of it ending."
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, reminiscing about the Goddard Space Flight
Center

"Windows is a security hole, barely obstructed by some barriers against
doing useful things." -- Richard Suchenwirth

"Tk 8.5 will use named fonts throughout (and hopefully named colors, if
we can manage it).  -- Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy


POTW:  "NetpackX is a suite of network applications for the Linux operating
system intended to provide network engineers, administrators, network
developers, test engineers and anyone who is involved in network operations
complete system control".
    http://helihobby.com/netpackx/index.html


    Tcl now is a fully-capable language for Windows system administration.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3421c4027196503b/

    Helmut Giese recommends an old post by Donal Fellows as exercise for
    those improving their regular-expression skills.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e44ba328374db0d4

    Jeffrey Hobbs demonstrates how succinctly Tk defines an integer-only
    entry field (given a release of 8.3 or more recent).
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b4ac2e73833f7173


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  Spring seems almost to be in the air - a clear sunny sky, green grass.
  I can not wait! But first the summary of last week's Wiki activities.
  
  Tips
  - Do you own one of these slick cellphones? Now you can run Tcl on them
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13393>
  
  - If you have six impossible things this morning with starkits, why 
    not finish it of with this bundle o' kits - a collection of games
    to be found at <htp://wiki.tcl.tk/13376>
  
  Tools
  - Control those frog-like canvas items please, will you?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13372> lets you drop them, and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13380> confines them to their cages
  
  - Is it a tool or a toolchest? SDX is both - oops the title says
    it is a library. Anyway, here it is: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9075>
    for all your starkit wishes.
  
  Techniques
  - Have you ever tried to convert an [expr]-expression into a nested
    Tcl command? Well, Salvatore and your humble chronicler have -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13399> borrows from Tcl's C source
  
  - Legal experiments with chemicals: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13359>
    Honi soit qui mal y pense!
  
  Thoughts
  - To read on-line is a Good Thing (TM), but to read a well-edited 
    print-out ... would that not be wonderful? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9106>
  
  - Data are all that matter. But how do you organise them? 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/122369> raises a few questions and offers a
    few answers.
  

Everything Tcl-related 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

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher.
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/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 maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl


    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
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  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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