by Mark Roseman - 'DejaNews:'' [L1 ]
A random assortment of goodies to placate the ardent Tcl-er this week...
- Watch the Usenix events page for news on the next Tcl/Tk conference, to take place in Austin, Texas on February 14-18, 2000. http://www.usenix.org/events/events.html
- Andrew Friedl announces AxTcl (formerly TclOCX), which allows embedding Tcl as an ActiveX component, is free http://home.earthlink.net/~affriedl/TclOCX/index.html
- Daniel Lopez (with help from Steve Ball) has started a Tcl client for the Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) protocol. http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/tcldav
- If you missed it earlier, Jeff Hobbs' Tcl pages (TkTable, TkCon, widget, vu, etc.) are at a new location http://www.purl.org/net/hobbs/tcl/
- Brent Welch comes up for air long enough to update us on how patches are flowing through the Scriptics site (see [L2 ])
- A thread on use of Tcl at universities quickly degenerates into a discussion of the language's syntactical quirks (thread [L3 ])
- Don Libes explains how to run a command as root while in the middle of an Expect script (see [L4 ])
- There were a few recommendations this week for J. Adrian Zimmer's book, Tcl/Tk for programmers http://www.mapfree.com/sbf/tcl/book/home.html