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QOTW:  "you can't trust people who nick-hop and ask inane questions" -- Jeff
Hobbs

"The Erlang guys always think we should use concurrency tests with
200,000 processes ..." -- igouy, on performance-testing


POTW:  TkPNG is a lightweight and even "nifty" way to teach Tk about PNG.
    http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TkPNG/


    When Expect is "hung" for you--you're almost certainly seeing things
    wrong.  In most cases, "it's not hung, it's just waiting for something
    that isn't coming," as Bruce Hartweg observes in a case at hand.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1143ac33173387ea/

    8.5 tweaks [text] behavior, or perhaps it should, but doesn't.  The
    facts remain unclear.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/919e583bc1cbaf1a/

    Melissa Schrumpf explains Windows-hosted Console behavior pertinent
    to Tcl and Tk.
        http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3995e7416563350c/

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
  Let us try another way of organising this week's entries for a change:
  in order of creation date.
  - An old page revived: paning widgets at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/565>,
    but perhaps Tk's own panedwindow will do just as nicely.
  
  - The "jim" interpreter continues to expand - there is an extension now
    for running the SQLite database system via "jim":
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2633>
  
  - The Tcllib library: want to contribute? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12100>
    tells you how, among other things.
  
  - Tcl has often been likened or compared to LISP. Is Tcl just a 
    bad imitation of LISP? Surely not - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13410>
    presents some arguments.
  
  - Home sweet home, as the proverb goes. But where is "Home" exactly?
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13418> about the woes of Home, End and other
    navigation issues...
  
  - Is everything a string, as the Tcl maxim goes? A lively debate
    at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13967>
  
  - Call it a whim, this window manager written almost entirely
    in Tcl ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13972>, it still is a nice idea :)
  
  - Sometimes you just need it, the disk space that a directory consumes.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13978> may be the answer.
    

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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