Archive-name: tcl-faq/part2 Comp-lang-tcl-archive-name: tcl-faq.part02 Version: 6.7 Last-modified: Apr. 28, 1995 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? 1. The introductory papers on Tcl and Tk by Dr. J. Ousterhout are available at , , . (The last of these files is the contents of Figure 10 of the Tk paper) 2. PostScript versions of published papers by Also, some pointers to information concerning the Exploring Expect book are , , . 3. An early draft of the Ousterhout text book was available on the net. The section dealing with writing Tcl scripts is . The section dealing with writing Tcl scripts for Tk is . The section dealing with writing Tcl applications in C is . The section dealing with writing Tk widgets and managers in C is . 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. It is less up to date than the published book, and does not contain the indexes. Buy the book for the best information. The examples from the published book are available in one large file as . 4. A series of PostScript slides used in a tutorial on Tcl and Tk at the 1993 X Conference are available as . 5. A set of PostScript files collected for the Tcl 93 workshop proceedings is available as 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 7. The Tcl Compiler (TC) Frequently Asked Questions by Adam Sah 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 (Dietmar Theobald) at (compressed format) and (gzip format). More on the entire OBST project, which is an object-oriented database interface called tclOBST, can be found at the 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 . 10. A paper on Radar Control software which uses Tcl, by J. H. VanAndel is available in PostScript form via the experimental web server . 11. Mark A. Harrison 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 . Contact him for a copy. 12. Cedric Beust has written a short article giving guidelines on where to start when writing a Tcl extension. You may find it at . 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 have written the paper ``Dish: A Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco''. It is available at . The FAQ as well as some other papers are in . 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 . 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 . 16. A WWW resource for the MBV Lab's Tcl/Tk support is and . Note that the server does not seem to be answering at this time. 17. A WWW resource for what appears to be a German tutorial on Tcl and Tk is at . 18. A WWW resource describing the HTML to Tcl preprocessor is available at . 19. A WWW resource for describing the set of extra ServiceMail Tcl scripts is available at 20. A WWW resource discussing Tk/Tcl style issues is available at 21. A WWW resource discussing Visual Numerics PV-Wave with Tk/Tcl is available at . 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 as well as various pages underneath this set of homes. This server does not currently seem to be answering Mosaic requests. 23. A soft file containing notes on Tcl and quoting philosophy can be found at . 24. There are references to Tcl and Tk (and perhaps other Tcl based interpreters) within The Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters and The Language List . 25. The first Tcl 'home page' available via the WWW URL was . Thanks to Mike Hopkirk for the time, energy and resources to make this available. Note that this page is also available for those behind a firewall as . 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. 26. The home page for Jungle - the Tcl-based WWW server - is available as 27. The home page for Nautilus - the Tcl-based [incr tcl] browser - is available at . 28. The home page for Zircon - the Tcl-based Internet Relay Communication (IRC) browser - is available at and a user's page at . 29. Documentation on the Tcl processing of WWW's server Common Gateway Interface (known as CGI) can be found at . 30. Mark Roseman 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 . 32. Information about Fritz Heinrichmeyer's experimental Schematic SPICE interface is available from . 33. Information about ical is now accessible from . 34. Wade Holst is providing HyperTcl - a WWW page providing various views on info available to the Tcl community. It can be found at . 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 (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 showing what the next release should be like. 36. The URL for a Tk-based Karel the Robot project is 37. A Tk reference card can be found at . This TeX and PostScript version of a Tk 3.3 card was provided by Paul Raines . 38. A good document on Xauth is available at or . 39. The documentation for the Xf command is available in European page format as as well as United States page format as . 40. Vivek Khera has written a primer on setting up your environment for xauth (by default a requirement under Tk 3.3) in the document . 41. A list of MPEG animations, done with Tcl scripts using TSIPP can be found at . 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 or go directly to Tcl by way of . 43. A home page for tkmail can be found at . 44. A home page for a map marking program can be found at . 45. A simple httpd written in Tk/Tcl can be found at . 46. A demo of images generated using Tk based tools can be found at . 47. Documentation for the DART project can be found at . There may be some problem with this server. 48. NeoSoft now has a TclX home page - see . 49. A home page for the program currently known as tkWWW is A status page for tkWWW from CERN is found at Internals information can be found at 50. An example of the output from TreeLink can be found at . 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 . 52. Huayong YANG in wrote a review of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit. 53. A page to locate the various versions of Wafe can be found at . Wafe's home page can be found at . 54. A draft paper titled "Kidnapping X Applications" is available as a part of the TkSteal tar file. It is authored by Sven Delmas 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 . 56. A WWW section for Hdrug , an environment to develop logic grammars for natural languages, is available at . 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 and are available as a tar file at . 58. A set of HTML pages for the scotty and tkined applications have been created. They can be found at and . 59. An archive for the distributed processing incr tcl discussion may be found at . 60. A copy of the paper Kevin B. Kenny presented at the Tcl 94 workshop is accessible on WWW as . 61. Terry Evans 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 , , 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. 64. A review of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit appeared in misc.books.technical on May 2, 1994 as Message-ID: by (Huayong YANG) who recommended the book to X window system programmers. 65. Mark Eichin has a HTML page in which he describes a Tcl random number generator. See for details. See for pointers to a graph editor and a dialog box set of routines. 66. The ftp address for a Quick Reference TeX guide, updated recently to Tcl 7.3 is . Many thanks to (Jeff Tranter) for contributing it. 67. PostScript versions of the man pages were provided by (Adrian Ho). The addresses for these are 68. A series of papers concerning GroupKit are available as and . An html page is available at . 69. Documentation concerning the DejaGnu Testing Framework can be found at . 70. A very elementary introduction to Tcl can be found at . It is being written by (Dr. David_Martland). 71. A WWW page for the Tix Tk widgets can be found at , maintained by (Ioi Kim Lam). A page for the beta version of Tix can be found off of this page. 72. The documentation for the Object Oriented Graphics package GOOD can be viewed at . 73. A demo of the NArray (numeric array) extension can be seen by pointing a forms-capable WWW browser at . This page is managed by (Sam Shen). 74. The source code from the article "A Tutorial Introduction to Tcl and Tk" by (Graham Mark) in Issue 11 (July, 1994) of _The X Resource_, can be found at or on one of the ftp.ora.com mirrors. 75. The PostScript for the start of a Tcl/Tk book being written by (Brent Welch) is available at to be published by Prentice-Hall. It is also available at . 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 . 77. A WWW home page for Collaborative Biomolecular Tools (CBMT) can be found at . 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. (Tom Poindexter) was the official judge. The winner was Jack Hsu with Honorable Mention going to Lionel Mallet , Stephen O. Lidie , and Motonori Hirano . The results can be seen at . 79. A WWW page for tksketch can be found at . 80. The WWW NNTP page for comp.lang.tcl is found at . 81. The WWW home page for the AudioFile package, which has a number of Tcl based clients, can be found at . 82. Dr. Ousterhout has written a 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 . 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 . 84. A home page for the Teaching Hypertools series of tools is now available at . 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 . 85. The home page for the Tcl question and answers FAQ can be found at . It is maintained by (Joe V. Moss). 86. A WWW page about the Tcl/Tk commercial program SimCity can be found at . The FTP site is . 87. A ProTCL WWW page (describing the Prolog to Tcl/Tk interface) can be found by browsing . 88. A Work In Progress report from SAGE-AU'94 concerning cpumon can be found at . 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 . 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 . 91. The SCOP command is a program which drives Mosaic and rasMol. See for details. 92. An article as to why one programmer believes that Tcl use does not scale to larger projects, see . 93. A WWW page which describes a Tcl frontend for processing WWW queries and formas can be found at . 94. A WWW page describing an [incr tcl] widget base class can be found at . It is by (Nat Pryce). 95. (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 . 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. (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 . 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 (Glenn Vanderburg), is at and deals with a series of selected responses to the Stallman flame war of GNU vs Tcl which occured during 1994. 97. (Dr. John Ousterhout) has created the WWW page for holding answers to Tcl questions, pointers to the software distributions, current status of Tcl/Tk development, expected release date for Tk 4.0, and pointers to a few other places on the Web with Tcl/Tk info. There is also a pointer to the slide presentation made at the Symposium on Very High Level Languages and a paper concerning intelligent agents on the Internet. John's WWW pages is going to be moving during 1995 to the following URLs - if you cannot find what you are seeking above, you might check here. 98. A WWW page to the tcl archives at luth.se can be found at . 99. A WWW page describing the interface between perl 4.x and Tk can be found at . 100. While not directly supporting Tcl, the WWW page at describes an X11 version of a simulation of SGI's GL under X11. You might try this with the Tcl/Tk OpenGL interfaces. 101. Most of the papers from the Tcl 94 workshop can be found at . Also, a few papers and slides did not make it into the above file. They can be found at . 102. The PostScript version of the Master's thesis by Adam Sah can be found at . A paper detailing XXX can be found at . 103. A PostScript version of the paper on Rush, the Tcl like language by Adam Sah and John Blow can be found at as well as 104. An Internet commercial company is using software based on Safe-Tcl. An index to their technical information can be found at . 105. A home page for YART/VR can be found by looking at . 106. A readme for the Phoenix WYSIWYG HTML editor can be found at . It is based on tkWWW. 107. The user guide for a multigrid galerkin hierarchical adaptive triangles solution to second order linear elliptic partial equations, which uses Tk to display graphical results, can be found at . 108. A home page for an integration of Safe-Tcl/Tk and Mosaic's CCI API can be found . 109. Some summary notes on the Tcl Birds of a Feather session at the January 1995 USENIX session can be found at . 110. A page of pointers to various Tcl/Tk programs and extensions written by Dan Wallach (such as TkLayers, TkPostage and TkGLXAux) can be found at . 111. An html version of the TclCommandWriting man page that comes with TclX has been made available on the WWW at . This page explains the C API to Tcl, providing a tutorial on writing Tcl extensions. 112. A new server is available and serving up SuperTclTk. It can be found at during GMT 17:00-9:00 . 113. SCO and IXI have a WWW page at which discusses both their Visual Tcl (a Motif based Tcl interpreter discussed at ) and Object Tcl ( or ), their new freely non-commercial, object-oriented, programming system for Tcl. For commercial use, contact IXI for commercial licensing details. A comparison between Tk and Vtcl can be found at . 114. A preliminary, older draft of a thesis detailing work on the use of Tcl and Tk in intelligent agents can be found at . More information should be forthcoming in the months ahead. The software, without a lot of good documentation, could possibily be available from the contact of Laurent Demailly . 115. The documentation for OSE, a set of tools for C++ development which includes a class to ease integration of Tk with C++, can be found at . 116. The Coral deductive database home page is . There is a Tk client which can interact with a Coral server. There is also a Tcl shell with coral database commands, and an explanation tool. 117. At you will find the home page for Mobal, which is a data mining system which has a Tk GUI interface. 118. A pointer to a paper dealing with Tcl in the multimedia environment is . This paper is by David Wetherall and Christopher Lindblad. 119. A pointer to a paper discussing Object Tcl is . 120. A pointer to (Peter.DeRijk)'s page on Tcl is . 121. Pacco is a set of widgets that extend Tk for object visualization. It's home page is . 122. A note on what to do when Tk reports that your display is insecure can be found at . 123. A home page for Jay Sekora 's jstools is at . 124. A WWW page detailing Tcl resources can be found at . 125. Online versions of Tcl and Tk manual pages can be found at . 126. A WWW page pointing to various Tcl/Tk software resources can be found at . 127. The home page for (Curtis L. Olson), , contains pointers to a Tcl/Tk interface to a check book balance program. 128. At the 1994 WWW conference, a number of papers were presented which mentioned Tcl. These papers can be found in the proceedings located at . Here are the papers that have been brought to my attention to date. 129. Some published papers relating to Tcl can be found at the following location ------------------------------ From: FAQ General information Subject: -VIII- Are there any mailing lists covering topics related to Tcl/Tk? There are quite a number of mailing lists which cover topics relating to the Tcl community. As you begin one, if you will send me information relating to the mailing list, I will add it below. o Basic Object Systems (BOS) BOS is a SELF-like objects extension to Tcl. To join, send email to and then send messages to . o Comp.Lang.Tcl by email For those Usenet-deprived individuals who are thus unable to read comp.lang.tcl, an email alternative is available. If you get comp.lang.tcl you do not need to sign up for this list. A service called "listserv" is being run out of CERN to forward comp.lang.tcl postings via e-mail to people who don't have direct access to the newsgroup. In addition, they are archiving the newsgroup so you can retrieve old postings from them. Here is some more information about the service. 1) send a mail to with one line in the body: subscribe tcltk 2) see how it works (you will receive the mail with instructions from listserv); 3) unsubscribe by a mail to with one line in the body: signoff tcltk 4) again, signing off will be confirmed by listserv o Copenhagen SGML Tool (CoST) mailing list CoST is a beta level tool designed to enhance sgmls so as to add additional flexibility in processing SGML documents. To join, send email to . Actual messages apparently go to . o Dejagnu This set of mailing lists are NOT maintained by Cygnus, the developers of Dejagnu. Dejagnu is an expect 5.x based package designed to be a framework for testing other software. Test suites exist for various GNU products such as GDB and binutils. 3 mailing lists - dejagnu-bugs, dejagnu-developers, and dejagnu-questions - have been created as a part of the yggdrasil.com listserv. To subscribe, send the line: subscribe dejagnu-bugs yourname@yoursite.com to the email address where you put your own email address in place of yourname@yoursite.com and you put the name of the mailing list you wish to join after subscribe. o Exmh exmh is a GUI for MH mail. It is available at There are 3 mailing lists: To subscribe and unsubscribe to: o the release and patch notice mailing list, send email to: . o the release/patch notices, as well as discussions among exmh users, send mail to o the release/patch notices, user discussion and programmer discussions, send mail to Be sure to include the word subscribe or unsubscribe as appropriate. Include your preferred email address if you want to be sure it is used. o Groupkit To subscribe to the Groupkit mailing list, which deals with an extension to Tcl enabling real-time groupware development, drop your email request to or send bug and feedback to . o ical Two mailing lists have been set up for ical-related information. Ical is a calendar application written using the Tk toolkit. Send mail to one of the two addresses below to be added to the mailing lists. *** Do not forget the "-request" part!!! *** The two mailings lists are: o This list will get announcements about releases of ical (including beta releases), and other announcements of high interest to ical installers/users/hackers. The traffic on this list should be fairly low. o This list will be used for general discussion about ical. Mail sent to "ical-announce" will be automatically forwarded here, so you do not have to subscribe to both lists. o incr tcl - distributed version This is a mailing list for discussion of a distributed processing version of incr tcl. To join send a message to where the body contains the line join distinct firstname lastname To send to the list, mail : o KIS - Kernel Information Services The KIS interpreter is a shareware package which provides access to the UNIX administrator to various kernel information. Parallelograms has setup a mailing list for discussion of KIS. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe kis " to . For more information, send the message "help" to . o Macintosh Tcl This Mailing List is devoted to the issues of Tcl on the Macintosh. This includes (but not limited to) such topics as ports of Tcl to the Mac (MacTcl), Tcl questions relating only to the Mac (file I/O etc.), and porting of Tk to the Mac. It is also a good forum for issues concerning Tcl based applications such as Alpha and Tickle. The mailing list is managed by listserv software. To obtain help about our listserv server send a message to with the word "help" in the body of the message. To join the mailing list send a message to with "subscribe mactcl First_name Last_name" in the body of the message. To have yourself removed from the mailing list send a message to with "unsubscribe mactcl" in the body of the message. Otherwise, all posting of articles to the mailing list should be sent to . If you have any difficulties, problems, or comments about the administration of the mailing list please mail them to: o Microsoft Windows port of Tk Simon Kenyon announced in early April 1994 that the Information Technology Centre of Dublin, IRELAND was undertaking the port of Tk to MS-Windows. He has set up the mstk mailing list for those interested in discussing it. If interested, send mail to to join the list and send comments and code to . o Mini SQL interface A mailing list for mSQL, a Tcl interface to the Mini SQL database server by David J. Hughes, has been formed. If interested, send a subscription request to . o Modules Richard Elling and XXX have set up a mailing list for discussion of the use of the Modules tcl package, as well as related packages such as user-setup. If you would like to be added to the modules-interest mailing list, send email to with the line subscribe modules-interest o MS-DOS Windows Tk Users A mailing list for the users of TkWin, the Univ. of Kentucky's port of Tcl 7.3 and Tk 3.6a to MS-DOS Windows is available at and msgs to o Nanny Parallelograms has setup a mailing list for discussion of Nanny. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe kis " to . For more information, send the message "help" to . This mailing list is also used to discuss our Kernel Information System (KIS). o PLPLOT This is a mailing list in support of the plotting system called PLPLOT. To subscribe, send a request to o Ptolemy Ptolemy is a simulation and prototyping system which uses tcl. To join the mailing list, send email to . o Qddb Qddb is a Quick and Dirty Database package. It uses Tcl as a configuration language and has a Tk interface. To join the mailing list, send email to . o safe-tcl Safe-tcl is an extension to Tcl which one can use to process incoming email msgs as tcl scripts. To subscribe, send a msg to and then further email msgs to . o ServiceMail Toolkit ServiceMail is a stand-alone email server written in C and Tcl. It takes incoming email requests and can perform tasks for the sender. To join the mailing list, send email to or subscribe to servicemail-help mailing list by sending a message to the "listserv subscribe servicemail-help your-real-name" service at . o tcl binary data access mailing list tclbin is a Tcl extension to allow binary objects. Send a "subscribe tclbin Your Name" line to to subscribe to the tclbin mailing list. o tclMIDI mailing list tclMIDI is a Tcl extension to generate MIDI music information. To subscribe, send mail to and include the phrase subscribe tclmidi in the body of the message. The subject is ignored. o tclMotif tclMotif is an extension which provides true Motif access to a Tcl program. This mailing list is maintained by . To subscribe, send mail to this address with the request subscribe tclMotif and you will receive a mail message acknowledging this. From then on, send mail to and it will be distributed. o TeenyMUD TeenyMUD is a multi-user dungeon program - allows multiple users to role play and converse in 'real time'. It uses Tcl. To join the mailing list, contact and then send your mail to . o TIGER TIGER is an environment for learning how to use OpenGL. The mailing list is in support of the Tcl OpenGL extension, the tutorial for learning OpenGL, and the upcoming editor/debugger. For joining the mailing list send a "subscribe TIGER mailing list" to . o Tix A mailing list for the Tix widget set is available. To subscribe send a note to and he will manually add you to the list as time permits. Please be patient. Messages will then be able to be sent to . This mailing list is only for discussion of the Tix tools - discussion of Tcl/Tk, etc. should be directed to . o tkgdb A mailing list to discuss a graphical interface to gdb can be joined by sending a subscription request to . o tknews tknews is a Usenet news reader, capable of either direct or NNTP news reading. To be added to the general discussion mailing list (tknews) or the bug reports list (tknews-bugs) contact and ask to be added. o Tkwm Tkwm is an X11 window manager written using the Tk tool kit. To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message with the word help to . Messages are set to . o tkWWW tkWWW is a tk-based WorldWideWeb client. Contact to join the mailing list and send your messages to . o VMS Tcl/Tk Folks interested in Tcl on VMS in general can sign up to the mailing list for more details. An archive for the mailing list is available at: o WAFE WAFE is a Athena Widget front end which uses Tcl. To join the wafe mailing list, contact . o XF XF is a Graphical User Interface builder which generates Tk and Tcl code. To subscribe to the xf mailing list, send a "sub xf-l Your Name" line to . o X Protocol Engine Library (XPEL) To join, send email to . XPEL uses Tcl for an embedded interpretor as well as uses safe-tcl in external monitor programs. o YART YART is a imaging software package based on Tk, OpenGL, etc. To join, send mail with subject "subscribe YART mailing list" to . Then send mail to . ------------------------------ From: FAQ General information Subject: -IX- Where can I find the FAQ and who do I contact for more information about it? I am going to attempt to keep a copy of this file up to date on . There are mirrors of the user contribution archive site maintained elsewhere - for instance, it appears that cs.huji.il, ftp.denet.dk, ftp.luth.se, hplyot.obspm.fr, rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de, sunsite.unc.edu, swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at all have some portion of the user contrib archives available. Also, I will be posting it on a regular basis to at least comp.lang.tcl, news.answers, and comp.answers. Many FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive site . The subdirectory and name under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line at the top of the article. For example, this part of the comp.lang.tcl FAQ is archived as . There is a Northern European archive for the FAQ at as well as a French location for the FAQ at . There is also a mail server from which you can obtain a copy of the FAQ. Send an email message to or with the word help in the body of the message to find out how to use it. Also, this FAQ is available from within gopher (by looking at any one of the gopher holes presenting news.answers or FAQ lists), from WAIS servers (such as the comp.lang.tcl.src), from a number of sites which have available via ftp archives of news.answers and comp.answers (use archie to locate one of these sites available around the world), and probably other resources as well. Other news.answers/FAQ archives (which carry some or all of the FAQs in the rtfm.mit.edu archive), sorted by country, are: Belgium ------- mail-server get avail FAQs Canada ------ France ------ mail server Germany ------- FSP ftp.Germany.EU.net, port 2001 mail server The Netherlands --------------- mail server Switzerland ----------- anonymous UUCP chx400:ftp/info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings mail server Taiwan ------ United States ------------- The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) id for the comp.lang.tcl FAQ is The user can use a WorldWideWeb client to access the FAQ from this point. A WWW URL for the FAQ, where the FAQ is treated simply as one long scrollable document (suitable for doing a search against, for instance) is though there are reports that this server is not responding to HTTP requests. A archive of the past 8 months of the newsgroup is available from . A good place to start looking through this archive is which contains a list of all the filenames and subject lines of each of the articles. Another archive available is where the archive is organized by collecting each month's worth of postings into it's own file. This archive has been kept since January 1993. A new source of the FAQ! Thanks to Taguchi Takeshi we now have the comp.lang.tcl FAQ translated into Japanese. It may even be readable using the Japanized version of Tk. You may find it at as well as . As new versions are translated, the version number will change (obviously). Let me know when you find the FAQ in new and unusual locations so I can update this resource guide! ------------------------------ From: FAQ General information Subject: -X- On what sites can I find archives for comp.lang.tcl? One ftp archive of comp.lang.tcl is available from . (Jan Newmarch) maintains it. It appears to be inactive at this time, having no updates since 1993. Another archive is available as and is stored as a series of monthly archives. It is maintained by (Kazuro Furukawa). ------------------------------ End of comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (2/5) ***************************************************** -- :s Larry W. Virden INET: larry.virden@cas.org :s :s Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should :s be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -- :s Larry W. Virden INET: larry.virden@cas.org :s :s Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should :s be construed as representing my employer's opinions.