This week's Tcl-URL

QOTW:  "[T]here's nothing wrong with Passport(TM)-type services
*provided* that you don't use them for anything where you *need*
security or privacy."  Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

"clt is just marvellous - if it didn't exist already, it needed to
be invented."  Helmut Giese
    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Xns9317ABDE46114rohanrohanpallcom%4066.185.95.104

"I love this language."  Daniel Stasinski


POTW:  "PDQ Ledger is a Financial application that has been written
entirely in Tcl/T ."  http://pdqi.com/ledger.html


    Solaris 9 breaks thousands of production Expect scripts.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=387952960a30df6c

    And for this week's regexp lesson ...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c803d2abdf9eed66
    
    Accurate Time Stamping
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d62dff13a1f12c13

    How do you remove a [proc]?  Michael Schlenker knows.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=xWG_9.662%24XB.93023%40news2.west.cox.net
    
    NEW TIPS
    --------
    TIP #126: Rich Strings for Representation Persistence
        http://purl.org/tcl/tip/126.html
    
    ANNOUCEMENTS
    ------------
    Oratcl 4.1
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b15toh%24i2u%241%40mozo.cc.purdue.edu
    
    Alphatk 8.2
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=pgpmoose.200301310738.11631%40despot.non.net
    
    TclDB 0.1 beta
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b1e9ol%24hfc%241%40news.tpi.pl
    
    a(Tiny)ComboBox 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=29de415e.0302020710.af2767b%40posting.google.com


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
    This week's pages in the summary are mainly starting points for 
    further information. Like:
    - Explanations of "megawidgets" at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2433> and
      what "paning widgets" are all about <http://wiki.tcl.tk/565>
    
    - Beyond individual widgets, "GUI-builders" are specialised 
      programs that help you manage the widgets and the code involved,
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4056>
    
    - Descriptions of types of applications can be found instead on
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/608> where "templates" are listed (and
      a link to the Tcl cookbook examples)
    
    - There are several pages related to CANTCL, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8305>
      describes how to interact with this archive.
    
    - The venerable Tkinspect program is a powerful debugging and inspection 
      tool: find out about it at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/511> 
    
    - The Fourth European Tcl Users' Meeting is getting into shape, start
      at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6273> and follow the link ...
      The Tenth Annual Conference? That can be found via 
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6274>
    
    We will not leave without mentioning this small gem:
    
    - TkRose interactively draws rosette curves in various colours,
      numbers of lobes and so on. Because of the current processor
      speed, you do not even see it being updated.
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8295>
    
  
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

    Cameron Laird tracks many 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

    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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