QOTW:
    >  What is the use for the regexp -inline
    It's brilliant - especially when used with -all!  
    Parag and Jonathan Bromley on c.l.t
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/10fb9daa0e3bb3f6

    "vwait 8.5" 
        Steve Redler, Miguel, ...


POTW:
    Re: [TCLCORE] 8.5 beta approaching  by DGP
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46DDBCF5.2020103%40nist.gov
    In support of the effort to get Tcl/Tk 8.5b1 out the door, I've
    updated the core-stabilizer-branch with merges from the HEAD,
    and generated some release candidate source code distributions
    from that branch for testing:
    I don't think these are true release candidates. I expect there will
    be a flurry of development on the HEAD over the next week. But
    I still think it's worthwhile for people to test these, since they will
    in many cases offer a first test of something calling itself 8.5b1.
    Many folks may be surprised what code and/or build scripts they have
    which might act unexpectedly differently when faced for the first time
    with this new response from Tcl/Tk.
    Download:
	ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_5/tcl8.5b1-rc0-src.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_5/tk8.5b1-rc0-src.tar.gz


    Tcl/Tk 8.4.16 release candidates  by DGP
	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46DDD34A.3070200%40nist.gov
    Since the release machinery is fired up anyway, and there's some
    interest in an 8.4.16 release too, here are some release candidates
    for that:
    Contrary to the 8.5 RC's, these are likely real or close to real,
    since development/bug-fixing is quite a bit quieter on the
    core-8-4-branch.
    Download:
	ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_4/tcl8.4.16-rc0-src.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_4/tk8.4.16-rc0-src.tar.gz

    ANNOUNCE: Business Information Dispatcher 1.0  by Andreas Otto
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/98f491d04cd5e2b4
    The BID software was designed to apply business-rules to your eMail
    traffic. A business-rule can be as easy as rewriting a header, to
    route the eMail to an other recipient, up to setup a persistent work-
    flow to realize a business-case. The BID software support all aspects
    of business-automation like:
     * receiving eMails from your already available Mail-Transport-Agent
     * analyzing eMails to extract business-information
     * joining and creation of new business-information
     * creating of customized layouts to represent your corporate-identity
    Emails are common used to transport business relevant information from
    a sender to a receiver.  Sources of business information are business-
    applications, monitoring-applications or just the normal user asking
    for or providing data. The goal of the BID tool was to automate the dis-
    patching of this information and to join a business-case with a respon-
    sible receiver. A receiver can be a human being or just an other BID
    server customized for a special business-case. The BID server was de-
    signed as generic server using a plugin to serve a specific business-rule.
    The main features of the BID server are:
     * link into the local Mail-Transport-Agent (UNIX)
     * work as a single stand-alone application or as a peer-to-peer network
	cluster available on every host in your domain
     * receive emails for local or alias accounts
     * rewrite email headers and join a business case with a responsible
	receiver
     * parse email bodies to do further processing
     * including a local database to setup a perform a persistent workflow
     * including a service to create HTML emails based on your corporate
	identity using a template
     * including a service to manage access from your secure internal network
	to the Internet
     * including a service to detect email spam and reduce network load
     * including a service to access to your local email2sms gateway
     * including a service to setup and maintain an email2sms mobile phone book
     * including a service to monitor your local MTA, BID server and host
     * including a quality framework to test and verify your business-rules
    Homepage, Downloads:
	http://bid.sourceforge.net

    ANNOUNCE: Tkamixer V1.0
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/fbae4041e0c313e8
    As a result of my first tries with Tcl/Tk, Tkamixer, 
    a graphical front-end to the amixer utility (ALSA), 
    has been published - and is available for download 
    Download:
	http://www.ispid.com.pl/free/

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    Format quirks
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f5fa670ce1b0b3d2

    What is the purpose for the regexp -inline flag
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/10fb9daa0e3bb3f6

    Tcl Extension Repository
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/37880730741c2050

    simulating button clicks on a Tcl/Tk application
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cdc8211da05cc2d8

    subwindwo command using event generate
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b031b4fe6578e0f5

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    nothing new here, walk on.

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    Tcl_Preserve() and Tcl_Release() for new interpreters
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e30c87821b39ca71


PMAG:
    numenta: a new tcl user !!
	http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95644
	http://www.numenta.com/
	http://www.numenta.com/about-numenta/technology/pictures-demo.php


Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Just two weeks to go until the 14th Tcl conference. So no time
  to lose ...
  
  Implement-it-yourself 
  - Every Tcl programmer at some point invents his/her own OO system
    or his/her own debugger - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19872> 
  
  - ... or improves an existing one: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19873> .
  
  - The more graphically minded can try their teeth on 3D visualisation:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10529>  (note for the lazy ones among us: there
    is a precompiled Windows DLL for this one).
  
  - ... or tame the canvas widget so that it will diligently produce
    a PDF file: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19851> 
  
  - Of course there is fun in re-implementing the entire language too:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19625>  - with an accent on security.
  
  - Or just a convenient parser for templates of code ... 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19864> 
  
  Just use it
  - But sometimes you can use and improve what is already there:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5151>  provides the combination of Gnome and Tcl,
    but it works different from Tk and Tcl.
  
  - An old invention, pie menus, and not often seen, but perhaps you
    can put them to good use: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19847> 
  
  - Latin? Japanese? These two very different languages are used in
    two very different applications, but Tcl/Tk is a common element:
    The French page <http://wfr.tcl.tk/988>  leads you to them.
  

Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these
pages:
    The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
        http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
    comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
    An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about

    The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
	http://www.tcl.tk

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

    The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
    of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
    maintain references to their own software:
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
    boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things 
    Tcl.
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
    There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl

    ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development tools
        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
    along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
    needs to validate many of the links).
        http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even 
    though clta itself is dormant.
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  In the
meantime, an alternative is
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl

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