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QOTW: "Tcl sockets are sooooo friendly" -- Cameron Laird

"never read from a nonblocking socket in a busy loop, use the Tcl
event loop instead."
      -- Reinhard Max


POTW: WebDAV-support for TclHttpd (0.1) by Stefan Vogel.
"With these scripts (which are simply placed in the custom-directory of
the TclHttpd-distribution) you have a small (and alpha) WebDAV-server.
Simply map a network-drive inside the Windows Explorer (or use your
favorite WebDAV-client) and ... have a look.

This software is meant to be extensible. Currently there are two 
modules.
One (webdav_file) provides access to parts of you docroot. The other 
(webdav_vfs) provides access to zip-, tar- or starkit-files (you can 
browse
inside a starkit with your WebDAV-client!)."
     http://www.vogel-nest.de/wiki.php/Main/WebDAV


     Preventing users of your package from overloading its
     procedures is not necessarily easy; many "solutions" just
     push access one level farther away:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1c7da3e7a07a5f06

     Piping data though an external process can be hampered if
     the process buffers its output:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f8ad820b094c3f4c

     Reading a character at a time from stdin using only Tcl (no Tk):
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e1f722dbe6b62eb7

     Benjamin Riefenstahl on the mysteries of [string bytelength]:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=26ab0b77c703a906

     Richard Suchenwirth shares more of his must-be-seen-to-
     be-believed "weekend projects", among which a few-line
     re-modeling of the whole WIMP paradigm stands out:
         http://wiki.tcl.tk/12137
	 
     Other Wiki-ers advance with virtual file systems and 
     Starkit wrapping, among much else
         http://wiki.tcl.tk/12131
         http://wiki.tcl.tk/12118
         http://wiki.tcl.tk/10560

  
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

    The Eleventh Mostly-Annual Tcl Conference will be this October.
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

    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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