# comp.lang.tcl Tcl Bibliography, Part 1/1 (February 13, 1995)

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    This is the Tcl bibliography, covering published and semi-published
    articles and other sources of information about Tcl, Tk, and
    associated packages, extensions, and applications.  It has been
    uploaded to the Alcatel archive (ftp.aud.alcatel.com) and should soon
    be moved into the /tcl/docs directory.

    There are loads of new entries, partly because it's been about three
    months since the last update, but also because there's been a lot of
    activity.

    This bibliography was originally sections V.A-V.B of part 1 of Larry
    W. Virden's comp.lang.tcl FAQ, which has been split into multiple
    documents.

    If you know of any other articles, online documents, or other similar
    resources related to Tcl, and especially if you write them, please let
    me know about them:

    	Glenn Vanderburg <glv@utdallas.edu>

    Information about inaccuracies in the bibliography is also welcome.

    I plan to work on the formatting of this bibliography, to make it
    easier to browse, and I also plan to make it available in other forms
    besides plain text; however, I will not predict when this might
    happen.

    Overview:

    A. The Seminal Papers
    B. The Expect distribution
    C. Miscellaneous other online materials
    D. Published articles, books, and similarly available resources

    New items:

    C.75-87: Twelve papers from the Second World Wide Web Conference.
    C.88: David Martland's tutorial introduction to Tcl and Tk on the Web.
    C.89: Wayne Christopher's collection of comparisons between Tcl and others.
    C.90: Michael B. Johnson's Ph.D. thesis, "WavesWorld".
    C.91: Paper on Object Tcl, by Wetherall and Lindblad.
    C.92-95: Various papers on VuSystem and ViewStation.
    C.96: Will Morse's Tcl/Tk and Expect Tutorial.
    C.97-102: Five papers from the USENIX Very High Level Languages Symposium.
    C.103: John Ousterhout's home page.
    C.104: Slides from John Ousterhout's 1995 USENIX talk.
    C.105: GroupKit Web page.
    C.106: Adam Sah's critique of Tcl.
    C.107: Summary of the Tcl and Tk BOF at the 1995 USENIX.
    D.34: Linux Journal article on Tcl and Tk by Matt Welsh.
    D.35: Michael B. Johnson's MIT SMVS thesis, "Build-a-Dude".

    Changed items:

    C.31: Updated the URL for the SIMON page.
    C.34: Updated the URL for Wade Holst's HyperTcl page.
    C.70: Added pointer to archives of "Why you should not use Tcl" debate.
    D.23: New draft and publication information for Brent Welch's book.
    D.31: Don Libes' _Exploring Expect_ is now available.
    D.36: _How to Manage Your Network Using SNMP_, by Rose and McCloghrie.
    D.37: "Access to Graphical Interfaces for Blind Users" in _interactions_.

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    A. The Seminal Papers

    John Ousterhout, the author of Tcl and Tk, presented these two papers
    at USENIX conferences.  They are somewhat out of date as far as the
    technical details go, but they remain interesting and useful.

    1. Ousterhout, J.K., (1990) ``TCL: An Embeddable Command Language'', in
    the Proceedings of the 1990 Winter USENIX Conference, pp 133-146.

    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/tclUsenix90.ps

    2.Ousterhout, J.K., (1991) ``An X11 Toolkit Based on the TCL Language'',
    in the Proceedings of the 1991 Winter USENIX Conference, pp 105-115.

    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/tkUsenix91.ps
    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/tkF10.ps

    (The last of these files is the contents of Figure 10 of the Tk paper)

    If you have trouble retrieving the papers via FTP or printing them,
    send bmiller@cs.berkeley.edu your U.S. Mail address and he will mail
    you paper copies.

    B. The Expect distribution

    	With the Expect distribution, there are several Postscript documents
    available which have been published.

    1. "Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction", Don Libes, Proceedings
    of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-15, 1990.

    	This paper is discussion of implementation, philosophy, and design.
    	Its address is:

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/seminal.ps.Z

    2. "Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks", Don Libes,
    Proceedings of the 1990 USENIX Large Systems Administration Conference (LISA)
    IV, Colorado Springs, CO, October 17-19, 1990.

    	This paper is discussion and examples specifically aimed at system
    	administrators.  The address of this paper is:

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/sysadm.ps.Z

    3. "expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Programs", Don Libes, Computing
    Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, University of California Press Journals, 1991.

    	A comprehensive paper of example scripts.  This paper's address is:

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/scripts.ps.Z

    4. "Regression Testing and Conformance Testing Interactive Programs",
    Don Libes, Proceedings of the Summer 1992 USENIX Conference, San Antonio, CA,
    June 8-12, 1992.

    	This paper discusses the application of expect to the verification
    	of software.  This paper's address is:

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/regress.ps.Z

    5. See above for "A Debugger for Tcl Applications" reference.

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/tcl-debug.ps.Z

    6. "Kibitz - Connecting Multiple Interactive Programs Together",
    Don Libes, Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West
    Susses, England, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 1993.

    	This paper is a discussion of using Tcl and Expect to connect multiple
    	interactive programs together.  This paper's address is:

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/kibitz.ps.Z

    7. "X Wrappers for Non-Graphic Interactive Programs", Don Libes,
    draft for Xhibition 94.

    	This paper discusses encapsulating standard command interfaces
    into a graphical user interface.  This paper's address is:

    ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expet/expectk.ps.Z

    C. Miscellaneous other online materials

    1. The ftp address for a Quick Reference TeX guide, updated recently
    to Tcl 7.3 is:

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/QuickRef.tar.gz

    Many thanks to "Jeff Tranter" <Jeff.Tranter@software.mitel.com> for
    contributing it.

    2. PostScript versions of some (out-of-date) man pages were provided by
    "Adrian Ho" <adrianho@nii.ncb.gov.sg>.  The addresses for these are:

    ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tcl6.3.manps.tar.Z
    ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tclX6.2b.manps.tar.Z
    ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tk2.1.manps.tar.Z

    3. An early draft of the Ousterhout text book was available on the net.

    	The section dealing with writing Tcl scripts is:
    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/book.p1.ps.Z

    	The section dealing with writing Tcl scripts for Tk is:
    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/book.p2.ps.Z

    	The section dealing with writing Tcl applications in C is:
    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/book.p3.ps.Z

    	The section dealing with writing Tk widgets and geometry managers
    in C is:
    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/book.p4.ps.Z

    The first two parts are about 130 pages in length and the third and fourth
    parts are less than 70 pages in length each.  This is ONLY a draft and is not
    permitted to be redistributed.

    4. A series of PostScript slides used in a tutorial on Tcl and Tk at
    the 1993 X Conference are available as:

    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/tut.tar.Z

    5. A set of Postscript files collected for the Tcl 93 workshop proceedings
    is available as:

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1993/tcl93-proceedings.tar.gz

    	This file contains the following papers:

    a. "A Debugger for Tcl Applications", by Don Libes, National Institute
    of Standards and Technology.

    	Describes a debugger for Tcl applications.

    b. "A Compiler for the Tcl Language", by Adam Sah and Jon Blow, University
    of California, Berkeley, CA.

    	A discussion of the design issues for providing a compiler for the Tcl
    	language.

    c. "[incr tcl] - Object-Oriented Programming in TCL", by Michael J. McLennan,
    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA.

    	Describes a set of extensions for organizing Tcl procedures and
    data into packages.

    d. "CASTE: A class system for Tcl", by Michael S. Braverman, University of
    California, Berkeley, CA.

    	Introduces a structured object class extension for Tcl.

    e. "Interfacing an Object-Oriented Database System from Tcl", by
    Dietmar Theobald, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe Germany

    	A generic interface extension to an object-oriented database.

    f. "Tcl Distributed Programming", by Brian C. Smith, Lawrence A. Rowe, and
    Stephen C. Yen, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

    	Introduces the Tcl-DP extension to Tcl.

    g. "Cooperating Applications through Tcl/Tk and DCE", by David Richardson,
    University of Michigan

    	Description of integrating Tcl/Tk into Open Software Foundation's
    Distributed Computing Environment.

    h. "NeoSoft Whiteboard - A framework for Internet-based Collaboration",
    by Karl Lehenbauer, Ellyn Mustard, NeoSoft, Inc., Brad Morrison,
    Paranet, Inc.

    	Describes a generic groupware framework using Tcl/Tk.

    i. "Tcl/Tk as a Basis for Groupware", by Mark Roseman, University of Calgary,
    Alberta Canada

    	Why Tcl/Tk provides a good environment for groupware developers.

    j. "Tcl and Tk Use in the Artifact Based Collaboration System", by
    John Menges and Mark Parris, University of North Carolina.

    	Describes a collaboration system being built at UNC whose user
    interfaces are based on Tk.

    k. "Ak: An Audio Toolkit for Tcl/Tk", by Andrew C. Payne, formerly of
    Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Lab, presently
    of OpenMarket.

    	Describes Ak, an audio extension for Tcl build on the AudioFile
    System.

    l. "A Tcl/Tk Continuous Media Player", by Brian C. Smith, Lawrence A. Rowe, and
    Stephen C. Yen, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

    	A Tk application that supports playback of live digital audio and
    	video on a Unix workstation.

    m. "Tcl in a High-Throughput Biological Lab", by Scott P. Hunicke-Smith &
    Dan Mosedale, Stanford Yeast Genome Project

    	Description of use of Tcl based control of a laboratory robot.

    n. "Autonomous Knowledge Agents - How Agents use the Tool Command Language",
    by Raymond W. Johnson, Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation, Palo Alto,
    CA.

    	Descriptions of traits of a software agent and how one of these
    traits led to the use of Tcl.

    o. "Implementing a Visualization of an Industrial Productions Cell Using
    Tcl/Tk", by Arthur Brauer, Claus Lewerentz, and Thomas Lindner,
    Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe Germany.

    	Discussion of a complex animated simulation written using Tk/Tcl.

    p. "Writing Object-oriented Tcl-based Systems using Objectify", by
    Wayne A. Christopher, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

    	Describes Objectify, a facility for integrating C++ classes into
    	Tcl-based systems.

    q. "Use of Tcl/Tk in DTS, an Interactive Optimization and Scheduling System",
    by Benjamin Fried, Aleks Gollu and Othar Hansson, Heuristicrats Research Inc.

    	An abstract of the work being done with Tcl in a NASA scheduling
    system.

    r. "Embedding a Scheme Interpreter in the Tk Toolkit", by
    Erick Gallesio, Valbonne, France.

    	Describes STk, which is a Tk package with Scheme replacing Tcl.

    s. "The Next, Best Thing in File Browsers", by Michael A. Harrison,
    Thomas A. Phelps, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

    	Describes NBT, an extended NeXTSTEP file selection box.

    t. "Tcl/Tk - An Integration Vehicle for the Microwave/Millimeter-Wave
    Pilot Sites (MMPS)", by Kevin B. Kenny, Brion D. Sarachan,
    Robert N. Sum Jr., and Wayne H. Uejio, GE Corporate R&D.

    	Describes developing wrappes for commercial vendor
    applications like FrameMaker (R) and Xess (R).

    u. "Generalising a File Manager into an Address Book and Other Things",
    by J. D. Newmarch, University of Canberra, Australia

    	Describing a redesign of an X file manager to allow the best
    features of a command line environment and a graphical interface.

    v. "Noosa: Execution Monitoring using Tcl and Tk", by Anthony M. Sloane,
    University of Colorado.

    	An overview of an event-based execution monitoring system.

    w. "An Interactive Compiler Development System", by Gary S. Tyson,
    Robert J. Shaw and Matthew K. Farrens, University of California, Davis, CA.

    	Describes an interactive graphical optimizer.

    6. A second set of Postscript files consisting primarily of overhead slides
    is available as:

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1993/tcl93-proceedings2.tar.gz

    	This file (tcl93-proceedings2) contains the following slides:

    a. "Cooperating Applications through Tcl/Tk and DCE", by David Richardson,
    University of Michigan.

    b. "Ak An Audio Toolkit for Tcl & Tk", by Andrew Payne, formerly of
    Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Laboratory, currently of
    OpenMarket.

    c. "Tcl Distributed Programming", by Brian C. Smith, Lawrence A. Rowe,
    Stephen C. Yen, University of California at Berkeley.

    d. "Supervisory Control Language - Applying Tcl to the Realtime Arena"
    presentation by Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc.

    e. "Tcl / Tk as a Basis for Groupware" by Mark Roseman

    	This file (tcl93-proceedings2) contains the PostScript for the paper:

    f. "A Table Manager for Tk", by G. A. Howlett <George.A.Howlett@att.com>,
    ATT.

    	This file (tcl93-proceedings2) also contains the slides and
    "minutes" from John Ousterhout's four "Future Directions for Tcl and
    Tk" sessions at the workshop:

    g. Future directions: goals for discussion and possible topics

    h. Future directions issue #1: managing extensions

    i. Future directions issue #2: evaluating untrusted scripts

    j. Future directions issue #3: improving the Tk binding mechanism

    7. The Tcl Compiler (TC) Frequently Asked Questions by Adam Sah
    <asah@cs.Berkeley.EDU> is a document describing TC, which is a work
    in progress.  Contact Adam for details.

    8. A compact yet detailed overview of Tcl, Tk and Xf is available thanks
    to the graciousness of theobald@fzi.de (Dietmar Theobald) at:

    ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/current/compress/psfiles/TclTk_notes.ps.Z
    (compressed format)
    and
    ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/current/gzip/psfiles/TclTk_notes.ps.gz
    (gzip format)

    It is called Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell, was last updated in July of 1993,
    and is part of the STONE structured open environment.

    9. Softcopy of an article about PhoneStation, a tool using Tk and Tcl, was
    presented at the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference.

    Uhler, Stephen A. (1993) ``PhoneStation, Moving the Telephone onto the
    Virtual Desktop'', in the Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference,
    pp ??-??

    A softcopy of the paper is available as
    ftp://bellcore.com/pub/PhoneStation/USENIX.ps

    10. VanAndel, J.H., 1993: ``Design of a New Radar Control and Data Acquisition
    System''.  Preprints, 26th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Norman, Oklahoma

    The paper is available in postscript form via the experimental web server:
    <a href="http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/RadarControl.AMS.ps"> Radar Control PS </a>

    11. Mark A. Harrison <mharriso@utdallas.edu>  has written a Tk/Tcl
    information sheet, providing an introductory look at why one might want to
    use Tcl and Tk.  Version 1.0 was posted to comp.lang.tcl as
    <278ml0$457@news.utdallas.edu>.  Contact him for a copy.

    12. Cedric Beust <beust@modja.inria.fr> has written a short article
    giving guidelines on where to start when writing a Tcl extension.  You
    may find it at ftp://avahi.inria.fr/tcl/writing-a-tcl-extension.ps .
    It is titled "Writing a Tcl extension: the Toocl example" and describes
    the work done on the Tooltalk extension.  The paper is dated August 10, 1993.

    13. Douglas Pan and Mark Linton <linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com> have
    written the paper ``Dish: A Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco''.
    It is available at ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/dish.ps.Z .  The FAQ
    as well as some other papers are in ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/ .
    Fresco is an X Consortium project - non-members interested in contributing
    to the effort should contact Mark Linton.

    14. Michael Jipping, Hope College , (1993) ``Using Tcl as a Tool Talk
    Encapsulation'', in the Sun User Group Eleventh Annual Conference and
    Exhibition PROCEEDINGS, pp 161-174.  This details work done writing an
    abstract extension to Tcl which enables one to encapsulate tools to
    make them ToolTalk aware.

    15. A WorldWideWeb (WWW) resource for Ada Tcl is available as:
    http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/arcadia/public_html/adatcl.html

    16. A WWW resource for the MBV Lab's Tcl/Tk support is:

    http://cornea.mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil/tcl.html

    17. A WWW resource for the HTCLtoTCL program is available at:

    http://www.lbl.gov/~clarsen/clarsen.html

    18. A WWW resource for describing the set of extra ServiceMail
    Tcl scripts is available at:

    http://keck.tamu.edu/cgi/staff/emailserver.html

    19. A WWW resource describing the HTML to Tcl preprocessor is
    available at:

    http://www.lbl.gov/~clarsen/projects/htcl.html

    20. A WWW resource discussing Tk/Tcl style issues is available at:

    http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/TCL.style.html

    21. A WWW resource discussing Visual Numerics PV-Wave with Tk/Tcl is
    available at:

    http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/rds/wave_tk.html

    22. A set of WWW resources discussing the Fermilab's use of Tcl within
    a massive data manipulation package can be found at:

    http://fndauh.fnal.gov:8000/spectro/doc/www/spectro.home.html
    http://fndauh.fnal.gov:8000/shiva/doc/www/shiva.home.html
    http://fndauh.fnal.gov:8000/ftcl/extended/tcllib/help

    as well as various pages underneath this set of homes.

    23. A soft file containing notes on Tcl and quoting philosophy can be
    found at ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/README.programmer.gz

    24. There are references to Tcl and Tk (and perhaps other Tcl based
    interpreters) within the following WWW databases:

    The Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters:
    http://cui_www.unige.ch/freecomp

    and
    The Language List:
    http://cui_www.unige.ch/langlist

    25. The first Tcl 'home page' is now available via the WWW URL:

    http://www.sco.com/IXI/of_interest/tcl/Tcl.html

    Thanks to Mike Hopkirk <hops@sco.com> for the time, energy and resources to
    make this available.  Note that this page is also available for those behind a
    firewall as:
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/tclhtml.tar.gz

    This WWW link is mirrored at the following locations.  There is no
    guarantee that they will be as up to date.

    http://ita.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/tcl/Tcl.html
    http://www.isu.edu/tcl/Tcl.html

    26. The home page for Jungle - the Tcl-based WWW server - is available
    as:

    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Jungle

    27. The home page for Nautilus - the Tcl-based [incr tcl] browser -
    is available at:

    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Nautilus/

    28. The home page for Zircon - the Tcl-based Internet Relay Communication
    (IRC) browser - is available at:

    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/

    and a user's page at
    http://shrug.org/pages/irc/zircon.html

    29. Documentation on the Tcl processing of WWW's server Common Gateway
    Interface (known as CGI) can be found at:

    http://www.lbl.gov/~clarsen/projects/htcl/http-proc-args.html

    30. Mark Roseman <roseman@edm.isac.ca> has prepared a brief comparison
    between Tcl/Tk and the Interviews C++ toolkit.  It is available via
    email by contacting him.

    31. Information about the SIMON Mosaic hotlist management tool can be
    found at http://web.elec.qmw.ac.uk/simon/.

    32. Information about Fritz Heinrichmeyer's experimental Schematic SPICE
    interface is available from http://ES-sun2.fernuni-hagen.de/editor.html .

    33. Information about ical is now accessible from
    http://clef.lcs.mit.edu/~sanjay/ical.html .

    34. Wade Holst <wade@cs.ualberta.ca> is providing Hypertcl - a WWW page
    providing various views on info available to the Tcl community.
    It can be found at the URL
    http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~wade/HyperTcl/

    Amoung the many services Wade provides are:

       1) hypertext descriptions of EVERY Tcl application archived at
          ftp.aud.alcatel.com.
       2) hypertext version of the Tcl FAQ
       3) different views of the Tcl applications:
           a) Sorted by name    - every Tcl application known to me.
           b) Sorted by subject - a list of Tcl applications falling under
                general subject headers, like "graphics packages", or
                "unix utilities"
           c) Descriptions of Non-archived Tcl applications.
           d) View by changes
           e) View Postscript documentation
           f) View interesting ftp sites
           g) View man pages and FAQs
       4) list of new archived applications as they appear.  For example,
           you can find out what new applications have been archived in
           the last 8 days (BLT-1.7, beth4.0, zircon-1.15p4, tkmkf-3.6,
           sybtcl-2.11 and oratcl-2.11).

    35. The URL for a page describing threaded tknews is
    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/people/mdm/tknews.html
    showing what the next release should be like.

    36. The URL for a Tk-based Karel the Robot project is
    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/people/mdm/karel.html

    37. A Tk reference card can be found at:
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/tkrefcard.tar.gz
    This TeX and Postscript version of a Tk 3.3 card was provided by
    Paul Raines <raines@bohr.physics.upenn.edu>.

    38. A good document on Xauth is available at:
    ftp://ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.ps
    or
    ftp://ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.txt

    39. The documentation for the Xf command is available in European page format
    as:
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/xf-doc.ps.gz
    as well as United States page format as:
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/xf-doc-us.ps.gz

    40. Vivek Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu> has written a primer on setting up your
    environment for xauth (by default a requirement under Tk 3.3) in the
    document:
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs/Xauthority.gz

    41. A list of MPEG animations, done with Tcl scripts using TSIPP can
    be found at: http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/tebo/Anims .

    42. Project DA-CLOD (Distributedly Administered Categorical List of Documents)
    allows the Web participants to set up organizational pages.  So a Tcl
    page has been set up.  Check out the URL:
    http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod
    or go directly to Tcl by way of:
    http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod?id=00024.dcl

    43. A home page for tkmail can be found at
    http://bohr.physics.upenn.edu/~raines/tkmail.html

    44. A home page for a map marking program can be found at
    http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/mapmarker/v02a/doc_html/HOME.html

    45. A simple httpd written in Tk/Tcl can be found at
    http://arsenio.mit.edu:8001/

    46. A demo of images generated using Tk based tools can be found at
    http://arsenio.mit.edu:8001/html/gscript.html

    47. Documentation for the DART project can be found at
    http://fndaub.fnal.gov:8000/dart_v1_0.html

    48. Neosoft now has a home page - see
    http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/default.html
    for it's Tcl page.

    49. A home page for the program currently known as tkWWW is
    http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/course/other/cdsdev/html/welcome.html
    A status page for tkWWW from CERN is found at
    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TkWWW/Status.html
    Internals information can be found at
    gopher://gopher.slac.stanford.edu/h0/WWW%20Documentation/TkWWWDoc/internals.html

    50. An example of the output from TreeLink can be found at:
    http://aorta.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~gaier/treelink/
    TreeLink is a Tk/Tcl program which draws a hypergraph of links from an
    HTML document.

    51. The documentation for the ILU software environment, which enables
    systems to be written which communicate between many different languages,
    including Tcl, can be found at:
    ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/1.6.4/manual-html/manual_toc.html

    52. Huayong YANG <yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu> in news:2q1iko$8cj@nic.umass.edu
    wrote a review of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit.

    53. A page to locate the various versions of Wafe can be found at
    http://www.es.net/pub/public-domain/wafe/.INDEX.html

    54. A draft paper titled "Kidnapping X Applications" is available as a
    part of the TkSteal tar file.  It is authored by
    Sven Delmas <garfield@cs.tu-berlin.de> and discusses the use of the TkSteal
    package to integrate existing X applications into a Tcl/Tk based program
    without having to make changes to the X application.

    55. A page dedicated to the new HTML editor tkHTML can be found at:
    http://alfred1.u.washington.edu:8080/~roland/tkHTML/tkHTML.html

    56. A WWW section for Hdrug , an environment to develop logic grammers
    for natural languages, is available at

    http://tyr.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/prolog-app/Hdrug/

    It uses ProTcl and TkSteal.

    57. The HTML slides and demo pictures for Patrick Duval's talk in New Orleans
    titled ``Tcl-Me, a Tcl Multimedia Extension'' can be viewed at:
    ftp://ftp.inria.fr/scratch/made/www/tcl-me/slide.1.html
    and are available as a tar file at
    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/tcl-me.tar.gz

    58. A set of HTML pages for the scotty and tkined applications have been
    created.  They can be found at:
    http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/tkined/welcome.html
    http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/scotty/welcome.html

    59. An archive for the distributed processing incr tcl discussion may
    be found at gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-a-e/distinct/

    60. A copy of the paper Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@dssv01.crd.ge.com>
    presented at the Tcl 94 workshop is accessible on WWW as
    http://crdis1.ge.com/papers/gecrd/mtl/mdip/tcl94/00header.html

    61. Terry Evans <tevans@cs.utah.edu> is coordinating work on a
    tcl/tk interface to gdb.  Send him email if you would like to help out.

    62. The HTML home page of Jonathan Kaye <kaye@linc.cis.upenn.edu>
    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ekaye/home.html contains a pointer to
    lisp2wish, a package that allows a Tcl/Tk process and LISP process
    to synchronously communicate.

    63. The following are a series of references to papers
    relating to the Safe TCL package.
    ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.ps
    ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.txt
    ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/em-model.txt

    64. A review of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit appeared in misc.books.technical
    on May 2, 1994 as Message-ID: <2q1iko$8cj@nic.umass.edu> by
    yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Huayong YANG) who recommended the book to
    X programmers.

    65. A set of Postscript files collected for the Tcl 94 workshop
    proceedings is available as:

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/1994_workshop.tar.gz

    The file contains the following papers:

    a. "An Introduction to the Rush Language", by Adam Sah, Jon Blow, and
    Brian Dennis, University of California, Berkeley.

    	Describes a new Tcl-derived compiled language designed to be
    	optimizable.

    b. "Tcl/Tk at the WellSite", by Dave St. Clair, Baker Hughes INTEQ.

    	Describes the use of Tcl and Tk to add custom reporting and
    	experimental calculation features to a realtime wellsite
            information system, "DrillByte".

    c. "Interactively Configuring Tk-based Applications", by David
    Richardson, University of Michigan.

    	Describes an experimental tool for interactively querying the
    	widget structure of a Tk-based application and modifying the
    	appearance and behavior of those widgets.

    d. "Dish: A Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco", by Douglas Pan,
    Stanford University, and Mark Linton, Silicon Graphics.

    	Describes a wish-like program, dish, which implements a Tcl
    	interface to the X Fresco toolkit.  Unlike Tk, however, dish
    	implements only a few new built-in commands, and it recognizes
    	and dynamically invokes Fresco methods using their definitions
    	in the CORBA Interface Definition Language.

    e. "Tcl meets 3D -- Interpretative Access to Object-Oriented
    Graphics", by Ekkehard Beier, Technical University of Ilmenau.

    	Describes a Tcl/Tk interactive 3D graphics application.

    f. "An Environment for the Development of Interactive Music and Audio
    Applications", by Eric M. Jordan, Massachusetts Institute of
    Technology.

    	Discusses plans for a Tcl-based platform for interactive music
    	and audio, building on existing systems such as Ak.  Part of
    	the intent is to show that building such a platform on top of
    	Tcl will benefit both the computer music and the general
    	computer systems communities, by giving each community access
    	to the others' advances and capabilities.

    g. "Packages: Adding Namespaces to Tcl", by George Howlett, AT&T Bell
    Laboratories.

    	Examines the namespace pollution problem in Tcl, current
    	workarounds and their failings, and a suggested solution in
    	the form of namespaces similar to those in C++.

    h. "Using Tcl/Tk from Erlang", by Ingemar Ahlberg, Ellemtel.

    	Describes the successful connection of Tcl/Tk to Erlang, a
    	declarative language designed for "soft" realtime
    	applications.

    i. "Tcl Programming Techniques for Specifying Visual Interfaces.", by
    Jeffrey P. Lankford, Northrop Grumman Corporation.

    	Compares procedure-oriented, data-oriented, and
    	object-oriented techniques for specifying visual interfaces in
    	Tcl.  The paper shows how to integrate an object-oriented
    	visual specification language (OSF/Motif UIL) with Tcl.

    j. "Tcl/C++ Binding Made Easy", by John Menges and Brian Ladd,
    University of North Carolina.

    	Describes a method of type-safe binding for invoking C++
    	methods from Tcl.

    k. "Dynamic Loading for Tcl: (What became of it?)", by Kevin B. Kenny,
    GE Corporate R&D Center.

    	At the 1993 Tcl/Tk workshop, a dynamic loading scheme for Tcl
    	was designed, with the intent of including in the Tcl core.
    	This paper discusses the various difficulties which were
    	encountered in trying to produce a portable, reliable
    	implementation of that design, and steps which might be taken
    	to finally achieve such an implementation.

    l. "Nautilus -- 20,00 Leagues under the tCl", by Lindsay F. Marshall,
    University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

    	Describes Nautilus, a combined debugger and browser for tcl/tk
    	and [incr tcl], written completely in [incr tcl].

    m. "Jodler -- A Scripting Language for the Infobahn", by Maximillian
    Ott, C&C Research Laboratories, NEC USA.

    	Describes a new object-oriented interpreted language based on
    	prototypes and delegation.  Jodler is designed for
    	implementing autonomous agents in a networked, nonhomogenous
    	environment.  It is currently being implemented as a Tcl
    	extension.

    n. "[incr Tk]: Building Extensible Widgets with [incr Tcl]", by
    Michael J. McLennan, AT&T Bell Laboratories.

    	Describes an [incr Tcl] framework for creating mega-widgets.
    	New mega-widgets are created using object-oriented principles
    	to specialize or extend existing mega-widget classes.

    o. "The sensor shells: An automated weather observation system", by
    Mike Hoegeman, GTE Weather Systems Group.

    	Describes the use of Tcl to build a weather station monitoring
    	server, which collects data from weather sensing devices and
    	makes it available to clients.  The paper also describes the
    	use of Tcl and Tk to build client applications.

    p. "Tcl-Me, a Tcl Multimedia Extension",

    	Tcl-Me is an environment for fast prototyping of multimedia
    	applications.  The extension gives Tcl fine control over the
    	processing of audio, video, and media-synchronization.

    q. "Vinny: A RISC System/6000 Hardware Database (a.k.a. 'A Tcl/Tk
    Testimonial')", by Richard Otto, IBM.

    	A case study of the use of Tcl and Tk to graft an easy-to-use
    	graphical interface onto a preexisting command-based
    	application.

    r. "User Shell Design with Components for Tcl and Tk", by Ruediger
    Franke, Technical University of Ilmenau.

    	Describes a method for building and using composite Tk widgets
    	by combining the primitive widgets, and a user interface
    	builder, USE, which makes use of that method.

    s. "Tcl and Concurrent Object-Oriented Flight Software: Tcl on Mars",
    by David E. Smyth, Mars Pathfinder Flight Software Team, Jet
    Propulsion Laboratory.

    	Describes the use of Tcl on the "Mars Pathfinder" project, in
    	which Tcl (with several extensions) is used in several ways:
    	as the language for inter-object messages within the
    	object-oriented flight software; as the implementation
    	language for the monitor and control environment; and as the
    	initial implementation language for some of the flight
    	software itself.

    t. "Ariadne", by Thomas A. Phelps, University of California, Berkeley.

    	This paper provides a brief description of a core platform of
    	services for the construction of interactive multimedia
    	document manipulation tools (browsers, editors, and so forth).

    u. "A 3D Viewer Widget for Tk", Wayne A. Christopher, ICEM CFD
    Engineering.

    	Describes a new Tk widget, similar to the canvas widget, that
    	can be used to display and manipulate graphical objects in
    	three dimensions.

    v. "Combination of 'set' and 'trace' Commands Found Useful for
    Concurrent, Quick-and-Easy Development of Character-Based Applications
    and Their Graphical Frontends", by Yasuro Kawata, Kimiya Onogawa,
    Akifumi Yabu, Akira Kawasaki, Hisahiro Kobayashi, and Mamoru Maekawa,
    University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo.

    	Describes a method for implementing applications which must
    	have both character-based and graphical interfaces.  The
    	character-based command is written to be standalone, and it
    	communicates with the graphical front-end by setting
    	variables, which are detected by the graphical front-end via
    	'trace' commands.

    w. "Ideas for Intelligent User Interface Design", by James R. Slagle,
    Zbigniew Wieckowski, University of Minnesota.

    	Presents principles for the design of user interfaces, and
    	discusses how those principles might apply to Tcl and Tk.

    65. In addition to the workshop papers, the abovementioned file
    (ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/1994_workshop.tar.gz)
    also contains the slides from some of the workshop proceedings:

    a. "Status of Tk 4.0", by John K. Ousterhout, University of
    California, Berkeley.

    	An overview of the current status of the Tk 4.0 release,
    	including a tentative release schedule, as of the time of the
    	workshop.

    b. "Scripts and Agents:  The New Software High Ground", by John K.
    Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley.

    	Describes the plans for Tcl and Tk development by
    	Dr. Ousterhout's group at Sun Microsystems.

    c. "'Tcl cures 98.3% of all known simulation configuration problems,'
    claims astonished researcher!", by Richard Golding, Carl Staelin, Tim
    Sullivan, and John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

    	Describes the use of Tcl as a configuration language for a
    	general simulation facility in the Storage Systems project at
    	HP.

    d. "Ideas for Intelligent User Interface Design", by James R. Slagle,
    Zbigniew Wieckowski, University of Minnesota.

    	Slides to accompany the paper of the same name.

    66. A few slide presentations and one paper from the 1994 Tcl workshop
    are not included in the file mentioned above, but are available
    separately:

    a. "Nautilus -- 20,00 Leagues under the tCl", by Lindsay F. Marshall,
    University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/Lindsay_Marshall-slides.ps.gz

    	Slides to accompany the paper of the same name.

    b. "Managing Electronic Documents with Ariadne", by Tom Phelps,
    University of California, Berkeley.

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/Thomas_Phelps-slides.gz

    	Slides to accompany the paper "Ariadne".

    c. "Writing Tcl programs in the Medusa Applications Environment", by
    Frank Stajano, Olivetti Research.

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/fstajano-tcl94-paper.ps.gz

    	Describes Medusa, a distributed multimedia applications and
    	conferencing system.  The core facilities of the system are
    	written in C++, and the applications themselves are written in
    	Tcl with Tk and Tcl-DP.

    d. "Use of Tcl in the Medusa Multimedia Applications Environment", by
    Frank Stajano, Olivetti Research.

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/fstajano-tcl94-slides.ps.gz

    	Slides to accompany the paper "Writing Tcl programs in the
    	Medusa Applications Environment".

    e. "Tcl-me, a Tcl Multimedia Extension", by Patrick Duval and Tie
    Liao, INRIA.

    ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/workshop/1994/tcl-me.tar.gz

    	A slide presentation to accompany the paper of the same name,
    	in HTML format.  It can be viewed at:

    ftp://ftp.inria.fr/scratch/made/www/tcl-me/slide.1.html

    67. The proceedings for the 1994 workshop can also be ordered.  The
    price is $30.00 + S&H ($4.00 in USA; inquire for others).  Make checks
    payable to Computerized Processes Unlimited, Inc.  Email to Lisa
    Duferne <lsd@cpu.com> for inquiries and orders.

    68. Glenn Huxtable has written a paper about "cpumon", his
    Tcl/Tk-based CPU performance monitor:

    ftp://bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au/pub/glenn/sage-au94.ps

    69. Adam Sah has made his Masters' thesis, describing a Tcl compiler,
    available for ftp: "TC: An Efficient Implementation of the Tcl Language".

    ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/msthesis.ps.gz

    70. Richard Stallman posted an article titled "Why you should not use
    Tcl" to comp.lang.tcl and several other newsgroups on September 23,
    1994:

    news:9409232314.AA29957@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu

    and another titled "GNU Extension Language Plans" on October 19, 1994,
    with somewhat less inflammatory content:

    news:9410190420.AA02904@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu

    These article caused quite a lot of discussion, including both valid
    criticisms and defenses of Tcl.  It seems fair to include references
    to both sides here, rather than just including RMS' articles with none
    of the responses, so archives of selected articles from both discussions
    are available at:

    http://www.utdallas.edu/acc/glv/Tcl/war/

    71. Dan Connolly <connolly@hal.com> is writing a critique of core Tcl
    called "Why Tcl Doesn't Scale".  The current version can be found at:

    http://www.hal.com/users/connolly/drafts/why-tcl-doesnt-scale.html

    72. John Ousterhout has prepared a "Tcl/Tk Engineering Manual"
    describing the coding, documentation, and testing conventions he used
    when developing Tcl and Tk.  His group at Sun will be using it, and in
    case any other Tcl/Tk developers are interested in using it as well,
    he has made it publicly available.

    ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/engManual.tar.Z

    73. David Gerdes has a set of slides which can be used for an
    introductory Tcl and Tk course, with an emphasis on Tk.  They can be
    found at

    ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/tcl/dpg/class/

    74. First Virtual Holdings, Incorporated has announced an information
    commerce mechanism for the Internet.  User interface software is
    available, based on Safe-Tcl.  An index to their technical
    information, including pointers to the software, can be found at

    http://www.fv.com/tech/index.html

    75. The Second World Wide Web Conference, held in Chicago October 17-20,
    1994, included several papers on systems implemented using Tcl.  The
    proceedings are online at

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/

    The following twelve entries refer to the individual papers relevant to Tcl.

    76. "WebMap - A Graphical Hypertext Navigation Tool", by Peter Doemel,
    University of Frankfurt.  Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Searching/doemel/www-fall94.html

    77. "Live Multimedia over HTTP", by Jonathan C. Soo, MIT Laboratory for
    Computer Science.  Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/soo/www94a.html

    78. "WWWinda: An Orchestration Service for WWW Browsers and Accessories",
    by Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund, et. al., GTE Laboratories.  Presented at
    the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/gutfreund/gutfreund.html

    79. "The TkWWW Robot: Beyond Browsing", by Scott Spetka, SUNY Institute of
    Technology at Utica/Rome.  Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/spetka/spetka.html

    80. "An API To Mosaic", by Guy Singh and Roger Binns, IXI Ltd.  Presented
    at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/singh/ixiwww94.html

    81. "AstroWeb Tools", by Robert E. Jackson, Computer Sciences Corporation.
    Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Astronomy/jackson/jackson.html

    82. "Dynamic Documents: Extensibility and Adaptability in the WWW", by
    M. Frans Kaashoek, et. al., MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.  Presented
    at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/pinckney/dd.html

    83. "W3 Based Medical Information Systems vs Custom Client Server
    Applications", by K.E. Willard, et. al., University of Minnesota Hospital
    and Clinic.  Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/MedTrack/willard/UMHC_www/UMHC_www_paper.html

    84. "Developing In-house Applications for Northrop Grumman on the F/A-18
    E/F Program Using Mosaic and HTTPD", by J.M. Ivler, EDS.  Presented at the
    Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/CorInfSys/ivler/edstlk1.html

    85. "An Architecture for Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web",
    by Stuart Weibel, et. al., OCLC.  Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Pub/weibel/weibel_www_paper.html

    86. "Integrating Complex Data Access Methods into the Mosaic/WWW Environment",
    by Bhavna Chhabra, et. al., University of Colorado.  Presented at the Second
    WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/schwartz/schwartz.html

    87. "Auto-FAQ: an experiment in cyberspace leveraging", by Steven D. Whitehead,
    GTE Laboratories.  Presented at the Second WWW Conference.

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/whitehead/whitehead.html

    88. "A brief introduction to TCL/TK", by David Martland, can be found on the
    Web at

    http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~csstddm/TCL2/TCL2.html

    89. Wayne Christopher has collected a great many comparisons between Tcl and
    other similar systems (mostly from USENET articles).  They are available at

    http://icemcfd.com/tcl/comparison.html

    90. Michael B. Johnson's PhD thesis, currently in progress, describes a
    modelling system written using Tcl under NeXTStep.  It is called "WavesWorld:
    A Testbed for 3D Autonomous Animated Characters".  Various information,
    including an early draft and releases of part of the software, are available
    from

    http://wave.www.media.mit.edu/people/wave/

    91. "Extending Tcl for Dynamic Object-Oriented Programming", by D. Wetherall
    and C. J. Lindblad, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.  An unpublished
    working paper.

    http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/usenix.vhll94.1.html

    92. "The VuSystem: A Programming System for Visual Processing of Digital
    Video", by C. J. Lindblad, D. J. Wetherall, and D. L. Tennenhouse, MIT
    Laboratory for Computer Science.  Published in _Proceedings of ACM
    Multimedia 94_,  San Francisco, CA, October 1994.

    http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/acmmm94.html

    93. "An Interactive Programming System for Media Computation", by D. Wetherall,
    MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report 640.

    http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/mitlcstr640.html

    94. "A Software-Oriented Approach to the Design of Media Processing
    Environments", by D. L. Tennenhouse, et. al., MIT Laboratory for Computer
    Science.  Published in _Proceedings of the International Conference on
    Multimedia Computing and Systems_, Boston, MA, May 1994.

    http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/ICMCS94a.html

    95. "ViewStation Applications: Intelligent Video Processing Over A Broadband
    Local Area Network", by C. J. Lindblad, et. al., MIT Laboratory for Computer
    Science.  Published in _Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on High-Speed
    Networking_, Oakland, CA, August 1994.

    http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/usenix.net94.html

    96. Will Morse of BHP Petroleum has written a Tcl/Tk and Expect Tutorial,
    which he presented at the World Wide Technology Conference in Houston, Texas,
    December 1, 1994.  It is available from the author:

    mailto:will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM

    97. The USENIX Very High Level Languages Symposium, held in Santa Fe,
    New Mexico October 26-28, included several papers on systems implemented
    using Tcl.

    The following five entries refer to the individual papers relevant to Tcl.

    98. "A New Architecture for the Implementation of Scripting Languages",
    by Adam Sah and John Blow, University of California, Berkeley.  Presented
    at the USENIX Very High Level Languages Symposium.

    This paper discusses the implementation of Rush, a new language derived
    from Tcl.  The implementation uses Scheme as an intermediate language.

    ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/rush-vhll94.ps.gz

    99. "Tcl/Tk for a Personal Digital Assistant", by Karin Petersen, Xerox
    PARC.  Presented at the USENIX Very High Level Languages Symposium.

    100. "Using Tcl to Control a Computer-Participative Multimedia Programming
    Environment", by Christopher J. Lindblad, MIT Laboratory for Computer
    Science.  Presented at the USENIX Very High Level Languages Symposium.

    http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/usenix.vhll94.2.html

    101. "TkPerl --- A port of the Tk toolkit to Perl5", by Malcolm Beattie,
    Oxford University Computing Services.  Presented at the USENIX Very High
    Level Languages Symposium.

    ftp://black.ox.ac.uk/DOCS/tkperl.me

    102. "Tcl: A Universal Scripting Language", by John Ousterhout, Sun
    Microsystems Laboratories.  Invited talk at the USENIX Very High Level
    Languages Symposium.  Slides are available (the PostScript versions cause
    problems with many PostScript interpreters):

    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/vhll.ps
    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/vhll.2up.ps
    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/vhll.ppt       (PowerPoint source)

    103. John Ousterhout has a page on the World Wide Web, which contains
    information on the current status of Tcl and Tk and future directions.

    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/

    104. "Scripts and Agents: The New Software High Ground", by John Ousterhout,
    Sun Microsystems Laboratories.  Invited talk at the 1995 Winter USENIX
    Conference, New Orleans, January 16-20 1995.  Slides are available (the
    PostScript versions cause problems with many PostScript interpreters):

    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/agent.ps
    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/agent.2up.ps
    http://playground.Sun.COM/~ouster/agent.ppt      (PowerPoint source)

    105. Mark Roseman has written a nice overview of GroupKit for the Web:
    "GroupKit - A Groupware Toolkit".

    http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/redirect/grouplab/projects/groupkit/groupkit.html

    106. Adam Sah has written a critique of Tcl, titled "Tcl considered harmful".

    ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/tcl-fear.html

    107. A summary of the Tcl and Tk BOF at the 1995 USENIX in New Orleans
    is available at:

    http://www.utdallas.edu/acc/glv/Tcl/usenix95-bof.html

    D. Published articles, books, and similarly available resources

    1. Computer Shopper, V12 N12, page 862 had an article referencing Tickle,
    the shareware package under Macintosh System 7 which is based on Tcl.

    2. MacWEEK, Sept 14, 1992, V6 N32, page 91(1), Enhancing text editors for
    Mac developers.
    This article is a product announcement for Alpha 5.0, the Macintosh
    editor which incorporates Tcl.

    3. Computer Language, V9 N7, page 76 had an article referencing Tcl in
    a hardware/software testing package which talks to a remote machine via
    a proprietary interface card.

    4. SunWorld, V5 N10, pages 95-96 had a article discussing Tcl, Tk and
    expect.

    5. UNIX REVIEW, V11 N4, April 1993, pages 93-94, Tcl, Tk, and friends
    by Richard Morin.
    The article, a part of "The Internet Notebook", mentions a little about
    Tcl and Tk, where to find the sources, where to find the draft of the
    book, and where to find the contributed software.

    6. SunExpert, V4 N3, pages 32-36, by Richard Morin.  As part of Morin's
    I/Opener series of articles, this is just a brief overview of Tcl and Tk.
    It mentions some of the technical ideas behind Tcl and Tk, where to find
    the Tcl source and mentions that the draft of the book is available on
    ftp.cs.berkeley.edu.  A 'hello, world' 3 line wish script is really
    all that is shown.

    7. Libes, Don, "Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries", Wiley & Sons,
    January 1993.

    This book has a whole chapter on Tcl.  Aimed at the C programmer, it
    describes how to effectively use Tcl from C applications.  Another
    chapter is on Expect - a walk-through of some of the more interesting
    code in Expect.  These chapters originally appeared as separate
    articles in The C Users Journal, Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1990, and Vol. 9,
    No. 1, 1991.  (Incidentally, the reason the book has such a peculiar
    title is that it also contains explanations of the Obfuscated C Code
    Contest winners.)

    8.  IEEE Design & Test of Computers, June 1993, pages 46-54,
    "RISE++: A Symbolic Environment for Scan-Based Testing" by Steve Vinoski.
    An article describing a system called the Remote Interactive Scan
    Environment (RISE++) that marries Tcl with RPC for the purpose of
    testing remote computer systems.

    9. The X Journal, March-April 1993, pages 74-81, "HYPERTOOLS
    A revolution in GUI applications" (listed in the TOC as "Hypertools: A GUI
    revolution") by John K. Ousterhout and Lawrence A. Rowe.

    10. Proceedings 1993 Tcl/Tk Workshop, Berkeley, CA, June, 1993.  See above
    for online version information concerning these proceedings.

    11. iX (multiuser/multitasking magazine), September 1993,
    pages 76-84 and 182-185.  Two articles written in the German language.
    These concern the design (interpreter and library) of Tcl/Tk and its
    connections with C++.  The articles say where to find the packages and
    some associated tools (such as XF).  There are short examples on how to
    write programs with Tcl/Tk (taken from the demo-directory of the
    package) and examples on using XF.  Very informative.

    12. Network Computing (CMP Publishing, Inc), November 15, 1993, pp. 99
    "Very Rich E-Mail".  References safe-tcl.

    13. The Addison-Wesley Publishing Company's quarterly newsletter "Innovations"
    dated Winter 93/94 contains an interview with John K. Ousterhout on pp 2,9,10.
    It mentions the April 1994 release date, Dr. Ousterhout's background
    at UCB and involvement in Sprite.  John gives a overview of what Tk and
    Tcl are, what companies are using Tcl, where Tcl/Tk fits in relationship
    to AWK, Perl, Motif, and X Windows (sic), mentions there are between 10,000
    and 50,000 people developing applications in Tcl/Tk, discusses where in
    the classroom the textbook fits, and gives an overview of John's view
    of the future of Tcl/Tk.

    Also on page 3 of the same newsletter is the overview of the book
    listing it as 512 pages and a list price of $36.75.

    One can send email to pradeeps@aw.com (Pradeepa Siva) to request a copy
    of the newsletter, or call him at Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
    617/944-3700, ext 2940, or call Addison-Wesley directly to request
    it at 800/238-9682.

    14. EXE, Nov. 1993, V8 N6, p84(4), Ticklish X windows.
    This is a tutorial as a part of a regular Unix column. It covers Tcl/Tk as a
    scripting language for writing small X-Windows applications.

    15. UNIX Review, March 1994, V12 N3, p87-90.  Tickled Pink, by
    Kevin Richard and Eric F. Johnson.  This is part of the programming column
    "CROSS THOUGHTS".

    The authors attempt to provide a very brief taste for Tcl/Tk and to convey
    the purposes for which they consider Tcl suited.  They provide a standard
    example of "Hello, world" in Tcl, and also a version written in Motif/C.

    There were quite a few surprisingly negative remarks in a column which
    tried to be positive about Tcl/Tk.

    16. iX, January 1994, pp 148-152, another German article about the
    interpretative  class system that is a part of the GOOD graphics system.

    17. The first text book dedicated to Tcl and Tk has been published.
    The title is _Tcl and the Tk Toolkit_, by John K. Ousterhout.  (Some
    publishers catalogues use an ampersand ("&") rather than the word
    "and"; check both in database searches.)  The publisher is
    Addison-Wesley, and it became available in April, 1994.  The ISBN for
    the book is 0-201-63337-X.  A third printing has reached the shelves.
    A note from the author about the book:

    "The Tcl book is more up-to-date than the drafts;  for example, the
    draft of Part II predates the Tk 3.6 release, so some of the example
    scripts don't work with the current Tk release, and the drafts contain
    a number of bugs that have been fixed in the final book.  The book
    also has more information about the individual widget classes than
    the draft, an explanation of Tcl_AppInit, and a number of other
    improvements.  Finally, it has an index."

    Though you should be able to find it in a local book store, one sure place
    you can call is Addison-Wesley Publishing Company at 800/822-6339.  It
    is paperback and the reference price is $36.75.

    Note that the examples from the book are available in one large file
    as ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl/book.examples.Z .

    Also note that Addison-Wesley has made a Tee shirt featuring the
    book!  The front side has the wording "Tcl/Tk: The best way to do X"
    and a picture of the cover of the book in blue and white.  The back of
    the shirt lists some books from the AW Professional Computing Series.
    The shirt is 50% cotton, 50% polyester, made by Hanes.  All profits will
    benefit the Literacy Volunteer of America (non-profit literacy program).
    The cost is $10.00 each, and can be ordered by calling 1-800-822-6339
    and providing either the order number 0-201-92446-3 (large) or
    0-201-92447-1 (extra large).

    18. Walnut Creek CDROM has published the Tcl/Tk CDROM.  This is a
    snapshot of the ftp.cs.berkeley.edu and ftp.aud.alcatel.com (formerly
    harbor) archives, as well as the archives for comp.lang.tcl newsgroup.
    The snapshot of the current CDROM is from early April, 1994.  The
    price is $39.95, plus shipping and handling.  Contact:

            Walnut Creek CDROM
            1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
            Walnut Creek, CA  94596

            1 800 786-9907
            1 510 674-0783
            1 510 674-0821 FAX

    	1 510 947-5996 is another number for them that we have heard.

            orders@cdrom.com

    The disc is available for FREE to anyone that has contributed any of their
    own work to the Sprite or Alcatel Tcl archives.  Just email your name,
    address, and the name of the files(s) that you contributed.  Overseas
    addresses are okay.

    19. The X Resource: Issue 10, Edited by Adrian Nye, Spring 1994, pp 33-46,
    contains the article "The X User: TkMan: A Man Born Again" by
    Tom Phelps <phelps@magnolia.berkeley.edu> .

    20. Dr. Dobb's Journal, June, 1994, p 49, in a side bar titled "Fresco:
    The Next-Generation InterViews", by Mark Linton, discussions X11R6's
    Fresco interface.  There is a mention of "Dish", an interpreter based on
    Tcl to provide an interface to Fresco and CORBA.  The mention is only
    2 sentences.

    21. Unix Review, June 1994, Daemons & Dragons column, "Expect", by
    Dinah McNutt, pp 35-41.  This article discusses Don Libes' expect program,
    with three trival examples of driving passwd, ftp, and fsck.

    22. Comput. Applic. Biosci., "DCSE v2.54, an interactive tool for sequence
    alignment and secondary structure research.", Peter De Rijk and Rupert
    De Wachter.  I don't know for certain if this article covers the Tk version
    of DCSE or not - the intro for DCSE reads as if it does.

    23. A draft of the new book by Brent Welch <welch@parc.xerox.com> called
    "Practical Programming in TCL and TK" is available for review at
    ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/sprite/welch/tkbook.ps.gz.  This draft is
    dated January 13, 1995.  The draft covers Tk4.0 and Tcl7.4, and includes
    a chapter on porting Tk3.6 applications to Tk4.0.

    The book deals with an introduction to Tcl/Tk in an easy fashion, along
    with tips on development, and in the future, discussions of several of
    the extensions such as incr tcl , TclX, BLT, etc.

    Examples from the book are available in

    ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/sprite/welch/examples.tar

    Here is the ordering information for the book itself:

    Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk
    Brent Welch
    Prentice Hall
    ISBN :0-13-182007-9
    Available May '95

    24. A number of other folk have included Tcl/Tk/Expect/and sometimes
    other pieces onto their CD-ROMs.  Unfortunately, most of them haven't
    contacted us with information concerning the prices, contact
    information, etc.

    One group that has sent us info is LEMIS (Lehey Microcomputer
    Systems) in Germany, which offers a CD-ROM filled with software for
    Intel-based implementations of UNIX System V.4.2, for DM100 or US$60,
    including support.

            LEMIS
            Lehey Microcomputer Systems
            Schellnhausen 2
            36325 Feldatal
            Germany
            Phone: +49-6637-1488
            Fax: +49-6637-1489
            Mail: lemis@lemis.de
            (Please, no orders by email -- paper required)

    In the U.S., LEMIS' CD is distributed by Walnut Creek (see above, D.18).

    Another is ACC Bookstores, which offers a Perl and Tcl CD for US$35.00
    which contains:

        "Full tcl and tk packages for the easy development of powerful X
        based user interfaces.  The source code is included for tcl and tk
        aimed at UNIX variants, DOS, NT, Mac, and MS-Windows.  Contributed
        scripts, extensions, documentation and packages [are included]."

    For info, call (800) 546-7274 in North America, or +1-203-454-5500 or
    send email to info@acc-corp.com.

    Other reported sightings of Tcl/Tk on CD-ROM:
      - Sun User Group CD-ROM
      - Rich Morin's Prime Time Freeware (PTF) Unix CD-ROMs (contact prf@cfcl.com)

    Many distributions of Linux contain Tcl and various extensions.  For
    example, Slackware v2.0, contains Tcl, Tk, expect, TclX, and [incr
    tcl].

    25. The Addison-Wesley Publishing Company's quarterly newsletter "Innovations",
    Spring 1994, pp 3,6 contains an interview with Dr. Terry R. Coley,
    Parallelograms.  He discusses the reason Tcl is such a good match for use
    in his company's products, how important Dr. Ousterhout's book is to the
    use of Tcl, and mentions that his company will be bundling the book with all
    of their products.

    Also on page 5 of the same newsletter is the overview of the book
    listing it as 480 pages and a list price of $36.75.

    One can send email to pradeeps@aw.com (Pradeepa Siva) to more information
    on the article, or call him at Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
    617/944-3700, ext 2940, or call Addison-Wesley directly to request
    it at 800/238-9682.

    26. CACM, Vol 37, N 6, June 1994, "An Overview of Motorola's
    PowerPC Simulator Family", by William Anderson, pp 64-69.

    This article discussions the Motorola PowerPC simulator applications
    which were developed to permit early development and testing of
    PowerPC-based software such as compilers.  The simulators are Tcl applications
    and the article discusses several benefits of using Tcl as a command
    language.  Anderson also mentions plans for the next generation of
    simulators to have user-extendable GUIs based on Tk.

    27. Tcl 7.3 is a part of the X11 R6 contrib distribution.  So it will
    probably appear in any publically distributable forum in which entire package
    appears.  Tk 3.6 is not, from my understanding, a part of the contrib
    tapes, etc.

    28. The X Journal, volume 3, issue 1 (September-October 1994), pages
    74-83: "X for the new user", by Jerry Smith.  Contains a brief mention
    of Tk as an alternate user interface technology, and a reference to
    the Hypertools article by Ousterhout and Rowe.

    29. The X Resource, Issue 11 (July 1994), pp 59-89:  "Interactive GUI
    Development Environments: A Comparison of Tcl/Tk, the Desktop
    Kornshell, and MetaCard", by Scott Raney.

    This article contains a balanced review of these three systems, with
    the author's views of their strengths and weaknesses with respect to
    each other and to C-based toolkits.  Performance benchmarks are
    included.

    30. The X Resource, Issue 11 (July 1994), pp 205-248: "A Tutorial
    Introduction to Tcl and Tk", by Graham A. Mark.

    An introduction to Tcl and Tk for people who are familiar with UNIX,
    C, and X.  The article presents the development of two relatively
    simple but complete applications, one text-based, and one graphical.

    31. Don Libes has written the book _Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based
    Toolkit for Automating Interactive Applications_.  It is published
    by O'Reilly and Associates.

    From the announcement:

    "For all of you who thought that the Expect man page was too long and
    too terse at the same time, this book provides relief.  _Exploring
    Expect_ is an introduction and comprehensive tutorial to Expect.
    Numerous examples are provided and explained, demonstrating how to
    save you time and money.  Example topics include how to write
    patterns, do signal handling, use Expect as a telnetable daemon, and
    use Expect with Tk and other Tcl extensions.

    "The book also includes an innovative introduction to Tcl - if you've
    had trouble using Tcl before, all of a sudden, it will make a lot more
    sense.  And while Exploring Expect concentrates primarily on using
    Expect with Tcl, programmers attempting to automate interactive
    programs using C, Perl, Python, or any other language will find this
    book helpful because many of the concepts underlying Expect-like
    programming are common to all languages."

    Publication Information:

    Author: Don Libes
    Title: Exploring Expect
    Subtitle: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Applications
    Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates, Inc
    ISBN: 1-56592-090-2
    Pages: 575

    32. In the August, 94 issue of SunExpert, a column by Peter Collinson
    refers to newer versions of Telebit Netblazers with Tcl embedded.

    33. Sys Admin, Vol 3 No 5 (September/October 1994), pp 109-110: "A
    User's Report", by Elizabeth Zinkann.

    This column contains a review of _Tcl and the Tk Toolkit_.  The author
    summarizes the book's highlights and recommends the book highly.

    34. _The Linux Journal_, December 1994: "X Window System Programming with
    Tcl and Tk", by Matt Welsh.

    35. Michael B. Johnson's MIT SMVS thesis describes a system built with Tcl.
    The title is "Build-a-Dude: Action Selection Networks for Computational
    Autonomous Agents".

    36. _How to Manage Your Network Using SNMP: The Networking Management
    Practicum_, by Marshall T. Rose and Keith McCloghrie, Prentice Hall,
    1995; ISBN 0-13-141517-4.  Describes a Tcl-based SNMP API, and contains
    several example programs.

    37. _interactions_, Vol 2 No 1 (January 1995), pp 54-67: "Access to
    Graphical Interfaces for Blind Users", by W. Keith Edwards, et. al.
    Describes a system, Mercator, for making graphical applications accessible
    to blind users.  One component of the system, transformation rules language,
    is based on Tcl.

    Additional bibliographic references are still being sought.

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