by [Matt Newman] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=484607573]

   * A reminder for anyone working with Tcl, in commerce or research: - Tcl/2k : The 7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference, Feb 14-18th 2000 (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482070783])
   * John Ousterhout has appointed the first official Tcl Ambassador: Jeff Hobbs, working for Scriptics with a mandate to "to raise the level of support Scriptics provides to the Tcl community". (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=83230424])
   * Dramatic speed improvement through minor change in use of read. (factor of 20-40!). A must for anyone reading large files. (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482508145])
   * Simple suggestion for the dreaded Octal number confusion. (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=484073453])
   * Discussion of command pipes and a clean example of using BLT's bgexec to solve this problem. (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482531387])
   * The discussion of Unicode and Tcl 8.1 performance continues. This problem is not going to go away until we get back to O(1) on string operations. (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482319455])
   * Making buttons the right size. (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=483579072])
   * A warning about binary data in Tcl 8.0 vs. 8.1 (channels) (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482092398])
   * Dynamic Packages. A good idea whose time is drawing near? (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=482910549])