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QOTW:  "What use is a double constant in tcl if you can't use it in 
[expr]?" -- Ian Gay

"The sooner the leading-0 octal rule disappears, the happier I'll 
be." -- Donald Arseneau


POTW:  DpTcl, by Gerald Lester.  "A Tcl only package compatible with 
TclDp, supplying advanced TCP/IP connectivity."
    http://mini.net/tcl/dptcl


    Instant sainthood with the Tcl beatifier.  Oh, wait, that's Tcl
    beautifier!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=abdca0b2151fc356

    Why is double dereferencing hard for newbies to grasp?  Theory: 
    they read that $var is shorthand for [set var], then forget about
    [set] because $ is shorter.  (NB: Start with the 2nd message in
    this thread.)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ab3d17cbd2073c1c

    Is momentum building towards a *real* Expect port for Windows?
    "BB" is trying, and David Gravereaux calls it "impressive"!
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=73a8e006819e7678

    Several implementations of fixed-length queues (not linked lists)
    are shown in
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=605535e6d75ba7dd

    Running multiple processes "at the same time" is something you'll
    want to do eventually, and understanding the event loop is your key
    to success.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=73804f2065807bc5

    Finding the widest line in a text widget is just a more general
    case of finding how much space a given string occupies in a given font.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=293625b551e3b7b0

    A bug in [string is]?  Say it ain't so!  (Because it ain't!  I myself
    have reported one of these "bugs" caused by platform differences in
    the strtod function.)
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=747933045f959644

    A variant of the old "always on top" question: how do you keep a
    window "always on top" of just its own application stack, not the
    whole desktop?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=330fc9cb043561a9

    Andreas Leitgeb offers a patch to pass "redirection characters" to
    [exec] intact:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=dd356e7dd1f21463

    Getting braces around your filename?  Don't blame WinXP!  Remember,
    [glob] returns a list, not a string.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2588de42a0a06dad

     Derk Gwen finds time to improve the Tcl 8.4.3 build scripts for Mac
     OS X (when he's not watching "Dogma", apparently).
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=903bdad8480c1c0c


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

    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

    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

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

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