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QOTW: "What, you read the man pages?!" -- Jeff Hobbs

"Mostly, the answers to my questions on c.l.t. leave me really
impressed..." -- Philipp Roessler

"Whether misinformation is common in c.l.t, you will have to
judge for yourself :-)" -- Donald Arseneau


POTW: Rivet 0.2.0 by the Apache Software Foundation's Tcl group.
     "Rivet is a thin, but very efficient layer that unites
     Apache - the world's most popular web server, with
     Tcl - a simple, powerful and efficient programming
     language."  "Rivet is currently only available for
     Apache 1.3 on various Unix platforms."
     http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/


     The implicit [concat] behavior of commands such as [uplevel]
     and [eval] can cause trouble, and not just for newbies.  If the
     only "safe" way to use them is to pass a single list, then of
     what benefit is the implicit [concat]?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9115e70be78f85d2

     I had no idea launching shortcuts was so difficult under Win2K:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1b385ae1950f2bea

     The important difference between [after $delay] and [after
     $delay {do something}]:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8b54333bbe4e06fd

     Never assume that an abitrary string (especially one from the
     user) is a well-formed list:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8f2fe3694d1d4e7f

     Rafael Martinez Torres scratches your IPV6 itch:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=617a5ac49de36714

     Something strange with [recursive_glob] in Win2K/Novell-land:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9d1ce55453ffe4e9
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4bc3947e4e80258a


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki activity:
  I will not attempt to make categories out of this week's ensemble
  of Wiki pages: each could have its own, I imagine.
  
  Testing is a traditional subject for Tcl, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2604>,
  but a few new pages that refer to specific approaches to testing:
  <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10127> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10128>
  
  Scotty is a well-known extension for Tcl, dealing with SNMP. The
  Wiki page <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8437> claims it is alive and kicking,
  but can someone fill in this page with more information?
  
  A thorny subject this, session management: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10050>
  is only the beginning.
  
  Here is a little application for getting rid of spam before it reaches
  your mail reader ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10114>
  
  BLT is another well-known extension. Did you know about its support
  for vectors? They can be used without Tk - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3316>
  
  Starkits and starpacks require only a slightly different approach to
  program development, but <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10099> is an attempt to 
  formulate how to take advance of the difference.
  
  The performance of this little script (simulating the UNIX utility grep) 
  is fine with small files, but how can we improve it for largish files?
  Ideas welcome at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8405>
  
  And finally: another topic for optimisation - tail call recursion as 
  discussed at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1348>
  

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

    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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