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QOTW:  "All Tcl is properly Unicode aware."  Donal K. Fellows

"There are no guarantees.  Just tons of insight waiting to be found."
                                             Jean-Claude Wippler


POTW:  Martin Russell packages quaternionic, statistical, and other
mathematical functions.
    http://www.mrussell.dsl.pipex.com/files/math.zip


    Dr. Detlef Groth has prepared interesting comprehensive Tcl
    documentation packages, tcl8.4.2++.pdf and tcl8.4.2++.chm.  Now
    we need a good place to keep them.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d3da261ab8cbd765

    Who has contributed the most to the Tcl world this year?
    ActiveState's accepting nominations.
        http://activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press1052761374.html>

    Yes, Expect scripts can be rendered into single-file executables.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3895bfc98c1917f0

    Bill Saunder has started a project to bind Qt to Tcl--nearly
    "pure" Tcl, in fact!
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4323ec682c5c64b1

    'Have a program that needs to display on multiple screens?
    There are several ways to achieve that.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8c67f96ab3953191

    Jeffrey Hobbs will webcast this week an explanation of advanced
    wrapping with TclApp.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a299e84e9b45104


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki activity:
  This week there is a wide variety of pages that deserve
  your attention (perhaps even more than usual):
  
  Some games:
  - I never would have thought to use Tktable as the substrate for
    a game - but the now classic Minesweeper game has implemented
    that way, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8918>
  
  - You know the answer to these questions? A simple game, but
    watch the neat structure of its input - it does not look like 
    programming! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8912>
  
  Cryptography:
  - If you do not know what an Enigma machine is, read this page
    and play it - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8847>
  
  - If you lack a basic understanding of cryptography, perhaps
    you should read a book like the one at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8921>
  
  GUI stuff:
  - Suppose you use emacs on Windows, wouldn't it be nice to be able 
    to use Tcl interactively from within emacs? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3005>
    shares the secret ...
  
  - Converting XML specifications to a GUI - just follow the yellow
    brick road that starts at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8908>
  
  - Quickly find an item in a list - it is not that hard, try
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8901>
  
  Algorithms:
  - Face it, not every OS works in the same way and sometimes the
    differences must be catered for even within Tcl. So, here is
    a golden oldy that tells you how to find out what OS you are
    running on: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/839>
  
  - In the Middle Ages it was a very important problem: find out the 
    date of Easter. In our enlightened days we can rely on standardised
    algorithms, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8915> implements it in Tcl.
  

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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