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by Cameron Laird - 'DejaNews:'' [L1 ]

Is it really vacation season? There's space to mention only a fraction of the thoughtful announcements and analyses that appeared in the last week:

Donal Fellows offers 75 lines of code to dump the contents of a canvas http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/tcl/dumpcanv.tcl
Paul Duffin explains how to code a C interface to Tcl's bytecode compiler to improve performance (see [L2 ])
Bryan Oakley refines his "widget-morphing" to disable selected entry functions (see [L3 ]) and releases his pure-Tcl combobox http://www1.clearlight.com/~oakley/tcl/combobox/index.html
Multiple posts during the week express satisfaction with various offerings of Jay Sekora's JSTOOLS package http://www.aq.org/~js/js-jstools.html
Andreas Kupries releases 1.2 of Trf and TrfCrypt, which fold compression, error-correction, encryption, ... into I/O in intelligent ways ftp://ftp.westend.com/pub/aku/trf1.2.README ftp://ftp.westend.com/pub/aku/trfcrypt1.2.README

Martin Schrape <[email protected]> has ported 8.0p1 to VxWorks, and plans to do the same for 8.1 (including threads!) this summer.

Jeff Hobbs' FAQ on Tk usage has moved to http://oprs.mchh.siemens.de/tcl/faqs/tk/
The Beta 5 release of TclPro includes its Wrapper, Checker, and Compiler http://www.tcl.tk/beta
MathWizards, Inc. releases a beta of MathXplorer/T. http://www.mathwizards.com/products/tcl
Tycho Slate is the Tycho project's mature refinement of the canvas widget http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~johnr/code/slate/

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