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Summary: A regular posting of the comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions
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This part covers Internet resources.
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X-Url: http://www.teraform.com/%7Elvirden/tcl-faq/part2.html Archive-name: tcl-faq/part2 Comp-lang-tcl-archive-name: tcl-faq.part02 Version: 7.000 Last-modified: May 31, 1996 For more information concerning Tcl (see "tcl-faq/part1"), (see "tcl-faq/part3"), (see "tcl-faq/part4"), or (see "tcl-faq/part5"). Index of questions: VII. Where can I find information relating to Tcl on the Internet? VIII. Are there any mailing lists covering topics related to Tcl/Tk? IX. On what sites can I find the FAQ? X. On what sites can I find archives for comp.lang.tcl? End of FAQ Index ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: FAQ General information Subject: -VII- Where can I find information relating to Tcl on the Internet? 0. The following newsgroups often are likely locations for Tk extension related discussions: <URL:news:comp.lang.tcl>, <URL:news:comp.lang.perl.tk>, <URL:news:comp.lang.python>, <URL:news:comp.lang.misc>. Announcements about Tcl or Tk related code releases may be seen in <URL:news:comp.lang.tcl.announce>, <URL:news:comp.archives>, <URL:news:comp.windows.x.announce>, and <URL:news:comp.lang.perl.announce> as well. Discussions concerning porting of Tcl and/or Tk into new OSes occasionally are found in newsgroups such as <URL:news:comp.os.linux.development.apps>, <URL:news:comp.sys.mac.programmer.help>, <URL:news:comp.windows.x> and <URL:news:comp.sys.next.software>. Foreign language discussions concerning Tcl and Tk can be found in <URL:news:maus.os.linux>, <URL:news:maus.os.linux68k>, and <URL:news:fj.lang.tcl>. 1. The introductory papers on Tcl and Tk by Dr. J. Ousterhout are available at <URL:ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tclUsenix90.ps>, <URL:ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tkUsenix91.ps>, <URL:ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tkF10.ps>. (The last of these files is the contents of Figure 10 of the Tk paper) 2. PostScript versions of published papers by <URL:mailto:libes@nist.gov> (Don Libes) relating to Expect can be found on the net. (See "tcl-faq/bibliography/part1") for details about the published papers. <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/expectk-talk.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/expectk.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/kibitz.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/regress-talk.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/regress.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/scripts.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/seminal.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/seminal-talk.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/sysadm.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/sysadm-talk.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/tcl-debug.ps.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/tcl-debug-talk.ps.Z> Also, some pointers to information concerning the Exploring Expect book are <URL:http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/features/expect/index.html>, <URL:http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/expect.html>, <URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/errata>. 3. The examples from the Ousterhout book are available in one large file as <URL:ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/book.examples.Z>. 4. A series of PostScript slides used in an introduction/tutorial on Tcl and Tk at the 1993 X Conference are available as <URL:ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tut.tar.Z>. 5. A set of PostScript files collected for the Tcl 93 workshop proceedings is available as <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/workshop/1993/tcl93-proceedings.tar.Z> and contains the PostScript for a number of the papers and slides presented at this workshop. 6. A second set of PostScript files consisting primarily of overhead slides is available as <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/workshop/1993/tcl93-proceedings2.tar.Z> 7. The Tcl Compiler (TC) Frequently Asked Questions by Adam Sah <URL:mailto: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 <URL:mailto:theobald@fzi.de> (Dietmar Theobald) at <URL:ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/current/compress/psfiles/TclTk_notes.ps.Z> (compressed format) and <URL:ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/current/gzip/psfiles/TclTk_notes.ps.gz> (gzip format). More on the entire OBST project, which is an object-oriented database interface called tclOBST, can be found at the <URL:ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/www/OBST.html> page. 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 presented at the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference is available as <URL:ftp://bellcore.com/pub/PhoneStation/USENIX.ps>. 10. A paper on Radar Control software which uses Tcl, by J. H. VanAndel is available in PostScript form via the experimental web server <URL:http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/RadarControl.AMS.ps>. 11. Mark A. Harrison <URL:mailto: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 <URL:news:278ml0$457@news.utdallas.edu>. Contact him for a copy. 12. Cedric Beust <URL:mailto: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 <URL: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 <URL:mailto:linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com> have written the paper ``Dish: A Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco''. It is available at <URL:ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/dish.ps.Z>. The FAQ as well as some other papers are in <URL:ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/>. Fresco is an X Consortium project - non-members interested in contributing to the effort should contact Mark Linton. 14. The World-Wide Web virtual Library now has a page on Tcl and Tk. You can find it at <URL:http://cuiwww.unige.ch/eao/www/TclTk.html>. It points off to a number of other resources, though certainly not all of them. 15. A WorldWideWeb (WWW) resource for Ada Tcl is available as <URL:http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/arcadia/public_html/adatcl.html>. 16. A WWW resource for the MBV Lab's Tcl/Tk support is <URL:http://www.mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil/tcl.html>. 17. A WWW resource for what appears to be a German introduction/tutorial on Tcl and Tk is at <URL:http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/home/stb/tcl_tk/tcl_tk.html>. 18. A WWW resource describing the HTML to Tcl preprocessor is available at <URL:http://www.lbl.gov/%7Eclarsen/projects/htcl.html>. 19. A WWW resource for describing the set of extra ServiceMail Tcl scripts is available at <URL:http://keck.tamu.edu/cgi/staff/emailserver.html> 20. A WWW resource discussing Tk/Tcl style issues is available at <URL:http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/TCL.style.html> 21. A WWW resource discussing Visual Numerics PV-Wave with Tk/Tcl is available at <URL: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 at one time was found at <URL:http://sdss.fnal.gov:8000/spectro/doc/www/spectro.home.html> <URL:http://sdss.fnal.gov:8000/shiva/doc/www/shiva.home.html> <URL:http://sdss.fnal.gov:8000/ftcl/extended/tcllib/help> as well as various pages underneath this set of homes. The problem is to digitally image the entire night sky in five colors, and the entire top layer of the data reduction package is based on Tcl. 23. A soft file containing notes on Tcl and quoting philosophy can be found at <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/README.programmer.gz>. 24. There are references to Tcl and Tk (and perhaps other Tcl based interpreters) within The Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters <URL:http://cuiwww.unige.ch/freecomp> and The Language List <URL:http://cuiwww.unige.ch/langlist>. 25. The first Tcl 'home page' available via the WWW URL was <URL:http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/Tcl.html>. Thanks to Mike Hopkirk <URL:mailto: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 <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/tclhtml.tar.gz>. This WWW link is mirrored at numerous locations. There is no guarantee that they will be as up to date as www.sco.com's version. <URL:http://ita.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/tcl/Tcl.html> <URL:http://www.isu.edu/tcl/Tcl.html> <URL:http://www.x.co.uk/of_interest/tcl/Tcl.html> <URL:http://ita.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/tcl/Tcl.html> <URL:http://www.sco.com/IXI/of_interest/tcl/Tcl.html> 26. The home page for Jungle - the Tcl-based WWW server - is available as <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Jungle/> 27. The home page for Nautilus - the Tcl-based [incr tcl] browser - is available at <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Nautilus/>. 28. The home page for Zircon - the Tcl-based Internet Relay Communication (IRC) browser - is available at <URL:http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/> and a user's page at <URL: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 <URL:http://www.lbl.gov/%7Eclarsen/projects/htcl/http-proc-args.html>. 30. Mark Roseman <URL:mailto:roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> has prepared a brief comparison between Tcl/Tk and the Interviews C++ toolkit. It is available via email by contacting him. Mark also is keeping a WWW page going concerning Macintosh Tcl/Tk related projects. Check out <URL:http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Eroseman/mactcl>. 31. Information about the SIMON Mosaic hotlist management tool can be found at <URL:http://web.elec.qmw.ac.uk/simon/>. 32. Information about Fritz Heinrichmeyer's experimental Schematic SPICE interface is available from <URL:http://es-sun2.fernuni-hagen.de/editor/editor/editor.html>. 33. Information about ical is now accessible from <URL:http://clef.lcs.mit.edu/%7Esanjay/ical.html>. 34. Wade Holst <URL:mailto: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 <URL:http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Ewade/HyperTcl/>. Among the many services Wade provides are: 1) hypertext descriptions of EVERY Tcl application archived at the user contribution archive site. 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. 35. The URL for a page describing threaded tknews is <URL: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 <URL:http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/people/mdm/karel.html> 37. A Tk reference card can be found at <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/tkrefcard.tar.gz>. This TeX and PostScript version of a Tk 3.3 card was provided by Paul Raines <URL:mailto:raines@slac.stanford.edu>. A home page for tkmail can be found at <URL:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/%7Eraines/tkmail.html>. 38. A good document on Xauth is available at <URL:ftp://ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.ps> or <URL:ftp://ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.txt>. 39. The documentation for the Xf command is available in European page format as <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/xf-doc.ps.gz> as well as United States page format as <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/xf-doc-us.ps.gz>. 40. Vivek Khera <URL:mailto: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 <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/Xauthority.gz>. 41. A list of MPEG animations, done with Tcl scripts using TSIPP can be found at <URL: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 <URL:http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod> or go directly to Tcl by way of <URL:http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod?id=00024.dcl>. 44. A home page for a map marking program can be found at <URL:http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/mapmarker/v02a/doc_html/HOME.html>. 45. A simple httpd written in Tk/Tcl can be found at <URL:http://arsenio.mit.edu:8001/>. Contact <URL:mailto:jrg@mtl.mit.edu> John R. Gilbert for more details. 46. A demo of images generated using Tk based tools can be found at <URL:http://arsenio.mit.edu:8001/html/gscript.html> ???. 47. Documentation for the DART project can be found at <URL:http://fndaub.fnal.gov:8000/dart_v1_0.html>. There may be some problem with this server. 48. NeoSoft now has a TclX home page - see <URL:http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/default.html>. 49. An overview page for the program currently known as tkWWW is <URL:http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/tk-www/help/overview.html>. A status page for tkWWW from CERN is found at <URL:http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TkWWW/Status.html> Internals information can be found at <URL:gopher://gopher.slac.stanford.edu/h0/WWW%20Documentation/TkWWWDoc/internals.html> 50. An example of the output from TreeLink can be found at <URL:http://aorta.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/%7Egaier/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 <URL:ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html>. 52. Huayong YANG <URL:mailto:yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu> in <URL: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 <URL:http://www.es.net/pub/public-domain/wafe/.INDEX.html>. Wafe's home page can be found at <URL:http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/wafe/wafe.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 <URL:mailto:sven@cimetrix.com> 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 <URL:http://www.ssc.com/%7Eroland/tkHTML/tkHTML.html>. 56. A WWW section for Hdrug , an environment to develop logic grammars for natural languages, is available at <URL:http://tyr.let.rug.nl/%7Evannoord/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 <URL:ftp://ftp.inria.fr/scratch/made/www/tcl-me/slide.1.html> and are available as a tar file at <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/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 <URL:http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/tkined/welcome.html> and <URL: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 <URL:gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-a-e/distinct/>. 60. A copy of the dynamic loading of code strategy paper Kevin B. Kenny <URL:mailto:kennykb@dssv01.crd.ge.com> presented at the Tcl 94 workshop is accessible on WWW as <URL:http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/papers/gecrd/mtl/mdip/tcl94/00header.html>. 61. Terry Evans <URL:mailto: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 <URL:mailto:kaye@linc.cis.upenn.edu>, <URL: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. <URL:ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.ps> <URL:ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.txt> <URL: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: <URL:news:2q1iko$8cj@nic.umass.edu> by <URL:mailto:yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu> (Huayong YANG) who recommended the book to X window system programmers. 65. Mark Eichin <URL:mailto:eichin@cygnus.com> has a HTML page in which he describes a Tcl random number generator. See <URL:http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eeichin/random-tcl.html> for details. See <URL:http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eeichin/> for pointers to a graph editor and a dialog box set of routines. At <URL:http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eeichin/grapheditor/mkdialog> you will find the code to make dialog boxes. 66. The ftp address for a Quick Reference TeX guide, updated recently to Tcl 7.3 is <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/QuickRef.tar.gz>. Many thanks to <URL:mailto:Jeff.Tranter@software.mitel.com> (Jeff Tranter) for contributing it. 67. PostScript versions of the man pages were provided by <URL:mailto:adrianho@nii.ncb.gov.sg> (Adrian Ho). The addresses for these are <URL:ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tcl6.3.manps.tar.Z> <URL:ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tclX6.2b.manps.tar.Z> <URL:ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tk2.1.manps.tar.Z> 68. A series of papers concerning GroupKit are available as <URL:ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary/papers/groupkit.CSCW92.tar.Z> <URL:ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary/papers/tclgk.TCLWorkshop93.ps.Z> and <URL:ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary/papers/roseman.msc.thesis.ps.Z>. An html page is available at <URL:http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/groupkit/groupkit.html>. 69. Documentation concerning the DejaGnu Testing Framework can be found at <URL:http://www.cygnus.com/doc/dejagnu/dejagnu_toc.html>. 70. A very elementary introduction/tutorial to Tcl can be found at <URL:http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/%7Ecsstddm/TCL2/TCL2.html>. It is being written by <URL:mailto:David.Martland@brunel.ac.uk> (Dr. David_Martland). 71. A WWW page for the Tix Tk widgets can be found at <URL:http://www.xpi.com/tix/>, maintained by <URL:mailto:ioi@xpi.com> (Ioi Kim Lam). Tix 4.x has many new widgets, support for Tk 4.x, faster widgets, etc. A small search program that permits you to search the Tix mailing list archives by keyword can be found at <URL:http://www.xpi.com/cgi-bin/mgrep>. Also at this site is a WWW page for the Tcl/Tk man pages, at <URL:http://www.xpi.com/tix/doc/tcltkman/>. 72. The documentation for the Object Oriented Graphics package GOOD can be viewed at <URL:http://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/GOOD.html>. 73. <URL:mailto:slshen@lbl.gov> Sam Shen's WWW page has some useful Tcl related items. For instance, a demo of the NArray (numeric array) extension can be seen by pointing a forms-capable WWW browser at <URL:http://www.lbl.gov/%7Esls/narray/>. One can also get Sam's SNTL Tcl support library at <URL:http://www.lbl.gov/%7Esls/woa/distrib/>. 74. The source code from the article "A Tutorial Introduction to Tcl and Tk" by <URL:mailto:gam@lanl.gov> (Graham Mark) in Issue 11 (July, 1994) of _The X Resource_, can be found at <URL:ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xresource/issue11/TclTk.tar.Z> or on one of the ftp.ora.com mirrors. 75. The PostScript for the start of a Tcl/Tk book being written by <URL:mailto:welch@parc.xerox.com> (Brent Welch) is available at <URL:ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/sprite/welch/tclbook2.1.ps.Z> which is published by Prentice Hall. It is also available at <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs/welchbook2.1.ps.gz>. The errata for Brent's book can be found at <URL:http://www.sunlabs.com/%7Ebwelch/book/index.html>. Brent's home page is <URL:http://www.sunlabs.com/%7Ebwelch/bwelch.html>, the book's page is <URL:http://www.sunlabs.com/%7Ebwelch/book/index.html>, and a page for Brent's Tk interface to MH is <URL:http://www.sunlabs.com/%7Ebwelch/exmh/index.html>. 76. The code from the article comparing MetaCard, dtksh and Tcl/Tk from Issue 11 (July, 1994) of _The X Resource_ can be found at <URL:ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xresource/issue11/Interactive.tar.Z>. 77. A WWW home page for Collaborative Biomolecular Tools (CBMT) can be found at <URL:http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html>. These tools consist at a minimum of a Biomolecular C++ class library, a library of filters and scripts in many languages, including Tcl, GUI components in Tk and possibly other GUI languages, as well as other data. Read the page for more details. 78. The first Internet TclRobots Challenge was held on September 30, 1994. <URL:mailto:tpoindex@nyx.net> (Tom Poindexter) was the official judge. The winner was Jack Hsu <URL:mailto:jh@cs.umd.edu> with Honorable Mention going to Lionel Mallet <URL:mailto:Lionel.Mallet@sophia.inria.fr>, Stephen O. Lidie <URL:mailto:lusol@Lehigh.EDU>, and Motonori Hirano <URL:mailto:m-hirano@sra.co.jp>. The results can be seen at <URL:ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/code/challenge-1.tar.gz>. 79. A WWW page for tksketch can be found at <URL:http://es-sun2.fernuni-hagen.de/editor/editor/editor.html>. 80. The WWW NNTP page for comp.lang.tcl is found at <URL:http://ecsdg.lu.se/cgi-bin/wwwnntp?comp.lang.tcl>. 81. The WWW home page for the AudioFile package, which has a number of Tcl based clients, can be found at <URL:http://orbit.cs.engr.latech.edu/AF/>. 82. Dr. Ousterhout has written an engineering style guide that describes the coding, documentation, and testing conventions that will be used at Sun and has graciously made it available to other Tcl/Tk developers. It is located at <URL:ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/engManual.tar.Z>. Feedback is welcome, but specifices concerning actual conventions are unlikely to change. Primarily there is room for changes on the presentation itself, as well as additional conventions which should be present but are not. Notes pointing to a conflict between a stated convention and Tcl or Tk base code are actual of interest. Send comments to Dr. Ousterhout. 83. A technical report describing the use and implementation of tkSather is available as <URL:ftp://csis.dit.csiro.au/pub/sather/papers/tkSather.ps.Z>. Other information concerning Sather and Tk can be found at <URL:http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/Sather/>. 84. A home page for the Teaching Hypertools series of tools is now available at <URL:http://www.ece.cmu.edu/afs/ece/usr/svoboda/www/th/homepage.html>. This series of tools is intended to be used to add new features to existing running Tk tools. An extended editor, designed to cooperate with the teacher hypertools, is described at <URL:http://www.ece.cmu.edu/afs/ece/usr/svoboda/www/elsbeth/homepage.html>. 85. The home page for the Tcl question and answers FAQ can be found at <URL:http://route.psg.com/tcl.html>. It is maintained by <URL:mailto:joe@morton.rain.com> (Joe V. Moss). 86. A WWW page about the Tcl/Tk commercial program SimCity can be found at <URL:http://web.kaleida.com/u/hopkins/simcity/>. The FTP site is <URL:ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/dux/SimCity/>. 87. A ProTCL WWW page (describing the Prolog to Tcl/Tk interface) can be found by browsing <URL:http://www.ecrc.de/eclipse/html/protcl.html>. 88. A Work In Progress report from SAGE-AU'94 concerning cpumon can be found at <URL:ftp://bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au/pub/glenn/sage-au94.ps>. Note that at one point, there were some missing screen dumps from the paper, but it should be updated when the author replaces the images. 89. WWW documentation for the Portable Tk project can be found at <URL:http://www.cs.hut.fi/%7Ekjk/porttk.html>. This project's goal is to provide proof of concept to the idea of creating a version of Tk which is portable between X, Windows, MacOS, AmigaDOS, and OS/2. 90. A WWW input form for feedback on Jon Knight's TCL-DP with Multicast IP can be found at <URL:http://hill.lut.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tdpmfeedback>. 91. The SCOP command is a program which drives Mosaic and rasMol. See <URL:http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/scop/> for details. 92. An article as to why one programmer believes that Tcl use does not scale to larger projects, see <URL:http://www.hal.com/users/connolly/drafts/why-tcl-doesnt-scale.html>. 93. A WWW page which describes a Tcl frontend for processing WWW queries and formas can be found at <URL:http://www.hyperion.com/%7Ekoreth/uncgi.html>. 94. A WWW page describing an [incr tcl] widget base class can be found at <URL:http://scorch.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/itcl_widgets>. It is by <URL:mailto:np2@doc.ic.ac.uk> (Nat Pryce). 95. <URL:mailto:dpgerdes@europa.ftc.scs.ag.gov> (David Gerdes) has made available a set of black and white slides that he used to teach a course on Tcl and Tk, with an emphasis on Tk. They can be found at <URL:ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/tcl/dpg/class/SLIDES4.ps>. They are packed 4 per page. If anyone wants the originals he has offered to put them there also. There are also some trivial scripts designed to get people started. 96. <URL:mailto:wayne@icemcfd.com> (Wayne A. Christopher) has begun a WWW page with pointers to usenet and other articles comparing Tcl and it's extensions to other language systems. You can find this at <URL:http://www.icemcfd.com/tcl/comparison.html>. At this time, there are comparisons between tcl/lisp/python, a discussion of Perl versus Tcl, articles by Stallman, Ousterhout and Throop regarding the use of Tcl in the FSF, and a critical review of stk. More articles will be added as folk make contributions. Another WWW page, maintained by <URL:mailto:glv@utdallas.edu> (Glenn Vanderburg), is at <URL:http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Eglv/Tcl/war/> and deals with a series of selected responses to the Stallman flame war of GNU vs Tcl which occured during 1994. Two other Tcl related pages can be found at <URL:http://www.icemcfd.com/tcl/ice.html> and <URL:http://www.icemcfd.com/wayne.html>. 97. <URL:mailto:ouster@tcl.eng.sun.com> (Dr. John Ousterhout) has created the WWW page <URL:http://www.sunlabs.com/ \#yF2E),e M/C K2v E^u \y0z6NQ q' y[ *DZJξ :1 +Lz5 t<ǟ=,H ᑭ-% }Sp x/װSNJv S/# L=t@sQhsvMN,hR- (w d|G' k = <