by [Cameron Laird] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=388732444] ''Watch comp.lang.tcl.announce for the many important annoucements that appear there.'' * Alexandre Ferrieux authoritatively summarizes the alternatives for pipeline users who must monitor both std{out,err} (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=387420612]) It was the end of May when Isaac To completely implemented one of these solutions (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=357589265]) * Robin Becker does the enormous service of explaining how to hack the Win* Registry so that auto_path loading mechanisms work for 8.0.3 (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=388372726]) * Colin Macleod gives a very grown-up analysis of how threads look from a Tcl perspective, and how much Tcl has to offer those already using threads (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=384906031]) * Harald Kirsch reveals his Bita creations: Binary Typed Arrays which efficiently store and manage (roughly conventional, not associative) arrays of natively-formatted quantities (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=385540496]) * Chris Griggs argues for multimedia savviness--"cross-platform audio playback"--in Tcl's core (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=388538100]) * Applications which control what happens when users click on the funny outer-border buttons (X, make-small, ...) are a popular topic. Donal K. Fellows understands them best (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=385589729]) * Paul Duffin and Alexandre Ferrieux explain what's involved in mushing Tk's event loop together with a C++ application's (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=386747655]) * Christopher Hylands summarizes the condition of Jacl and Tcl Blend from an experienced user's viewpoint (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=386298031]) * Samy Zafrany's tkpaint is clever ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/graphics/tkpaint/1.1 * Fridiric BONNET releases 1.0 of his tcLex (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=387593051]) and Steve Ball his tclExpat (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=384829577]) <> Community