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QOTW:  "[A]utomatic growth doesn't have the dilemma of the gaps." - D. G. Porter


    Adrian aptly illustrates the principle that Tcl can be made
    to look the way one wants with a quick <<Modified>>-based
    hack to endow a text with a textvariable:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/ff852700...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Just one more week to the European Tclers' Meeting ...
  
  A bunch of tools
  - Inspecting variables in a running Tk program, using an external
    browser ... an old tool resurfaces: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9154>
  
  - How difficult is it to compute the disk space? Do you
    need external tools or not? Quite a discussion on 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4187>
  
  - Gnocl is steadily expanding: new tools, new widgets ...
    Here are a ruler, a calendar and a curve widget:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23490>, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23491>, 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23492> 
  
  - A GUI testing tool ... Android is getting some attention
    again: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1691>
  
  - Will this summer project solve a long-standing wish?
    An extensive discussion of printer support:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23196>
  
  A few shells
  - The graphical user shell "gush" is now neatly documented
    on the Wiki: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23446>
  
  - Toward a Tcl-only desktop environment - less fanciful than you
    might think: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10719> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23597> 
  

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
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, keeps info to 
    onvince 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
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    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

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    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 (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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