Tcl-URL! - 1999/11/01

by Jeffrey Hobbs - DejaNews: [1]

• Trf 2.0, an extension that provides stream based transformations, including compression and encryption, is out http://www.oche.de/%7Eakupries/soft/trf/
• exsmtp 0.8 SMTP email sending library is announced (see DN541503021) http://www.millibits.com/djh/tcl/
• Smbnet 0.2 is out, providing access to the Microsoft SMB network (see DN541503020) http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/works/tcl.html#smbnet
• A how-to for handling Turkish letters is presented http://home.germany.net/100/170561/turkbind.html
• A thread on Ffidl 0.1 Alpha shows interesting promise for enabling direct C calls from Tcl on more platforms (thread [2]) http://elf.org/ffidl/
• tclhttpd 2.3.3 is done (the Tcl web server) http://www.scriptics.com/tclhttpd/
• Img 1.2.2 is announced, a package of extra image formats (see DN541352046) http://home.wxs.nl/~nijtmans/img.html
• People share their opinions and experiences between Tix and BWidgets (see DN541728124)
• Mentry 0.9, a multiple entry megawidget for complex input makes the scene (see DN542697366)
• As does v2 of the widget callback package from the same author (see DN542695052)
• Mktclapp 3.8, a utility for mixing C/C++ with Tcl/Tk is out (see DN543068354) http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/
• Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001
• And we get a clarification of how to best handle DST switchover (see DN543109920)