Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! for September 4, 2000

Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 11:09:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Hall, Leam" LHall@rosenbluth.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 4)

Donal K. Fellows shows how to duplicate the Unix "sleep" effect:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=665591411

Cameron Laird demonstrates setting a Tcl var from the main shell to a thread:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=665019538

Laurent Duperval drafts an idea on detecting ending background processes:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=665139395

Jeff David cleans up socket code:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=664926350

For the Newbies: Dan Kuchler builds start and stop buttons, and shows a "gotcha":
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=665596078

Glenn Jackman shows how to catch and read stdout and stderr:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=664929874

Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html

Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/

NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/

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