This week's Tcl-URL

QOTW:  "Everyone wants everything for free."  David Gravereaux      

"I've personally seen people won over to Tcl solutions who were
completely agnostic about the use of Tcl - it was Tcl's ability to
produce something of unordinary complexity in such short time that
was key."  Jeffrey Hobbs

POTW:  "Tcl-nap ... provides the n-dimensional array processor extension
to Tcl."
        http://tcl-nap.sourceforge.net/  


    Double-clicking:  making it easy for users challenges programmers.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=ccb854fe28f3d1f7

    Tclvfs might soon understand tar, gz, ...  Read on for hints of
    how wonderful that will be.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=1639f74df09938d1
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=deb29ca4b76c7574

    The XChat Tcl Plugin for the XChat IRC client is "excellent".
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2645b6d712dcf6f4


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
    After a quiet week for the Wiki, but a turbulent one for the calendar,
    here are a handful of gems to be found:
    
    - Keysyms are a typical UNIX topic predating Unicode. Benny Riefenstahl
      examined the issues on other platforms. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6182>
    
    - Hex editors can help when you are dealing with characters other than
      the ones found on the keyboard directly. Look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3086>
    
    - UNIX daemons are discussed on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2224>, 
      and Windows NT services on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2114>
    
    - Several people are working on a connection between the Tcl web server
      and Metakit. Results are becoming available: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3072>
    
    And finally:
    Who would have thought that the old and venerable Georg Cantor would
    be commemorated on a modern medium like the Wiki? Still, Richard Suchenwirth
    muses over a possible relation between Cantor and Tcl, 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6133>, as he uses Tcl and Cantor's ideas, to cover a
    rectangle with a line segment.

  
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/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor 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 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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