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The Tk Toolkit
-SCCS: %Z% $Id: README,v 1.7 1998/08/04 23:25:15 welch Exp $
-
-0. Preface
-----------
-This is a pre-release of 8.0.3, tk_patchLevel "8.0.3-5"
-This is very close to final, and we plan code freeze Thursday,
-so I'll make the release that night. But, please compile now
-to flush out any problems.
-
-This release is being made early to help
-with the Consortium CD project. Please do not advertise or
-circulate this release widely. If you have problems, please figure
-out a fix and include a patch or a lot of detail, then send
-email to <bugs@scriptics.com>
-Brent Welch
-
-Summary of changes:
-1. Various bug fixes from Scriptics.
-2. Adopted changes from the 2.0 plugin release for security fixes
-and improved Macintosh embedding code.
-3. Adopted Nijtmans' compatibility patch to add reserved fields to
-certain Tk structures. This means extensions should work with
-either vanilla Tk or a dash-patched version.
-4. Modifications to support the Macintosh Appearance manager.
-
-Fixes relative to previous pre-releases
- Fixed the reverse video bitmaps on UNIX
- Several menu and alt-key fixes:
- fixed bug in menus where bgerrors were not generated during menu callbacks
- fixed memory leak in menu code
- fixed Alt-key handling
- fixed bug in menubar handling so menubar doesn't get destroyed when a
- window is destroyed
+SCCS: %Z% $Id: README,v 1.8 1998/08/06 15:51:57 welch Exp $
1. Introduction
---------------
@@ -68,6 +36,10 @@ books on Tcl and Tk:
Exploring Expect, by Don Libes,
O'Reilly and Associates, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-090-2
+Other books are listed at
+http://www.scriptics.com/resource/doc/books/
+http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/books.html
+
The "doc" subdirectory in this release contains a complete set of
reference manual entries for Tk. Files with extension ".1" are for
programs such as wish; files with extension ".3" are for C library
@@ -331,7 +303,16 @@ in the directory "/pub/tcl". The archive also contains several FAQ
("frequently asked questions") documents that provide solutions to problems
that are commonly encountered by TCL newcomers.
-9. Support and bug fixes
+9. Tcl Resource Center
+----------------------
+Visit http://www.scritics.com/resource/ to see an annotated index of
+many Tcl resources available on the World Wide Web. This includes
+papers, books, and FAQs, as well as extensions, applications, binary
+releases, and patches. You can contribute patches by sending them
+to <patches@scriptics.com>. You can also recommend more URLs for the
+resource center using the forms labeled "Add a Resource".
+
+10. Support and bug fixes
------------------------
We're very interested in receiving bug reports and suggestions for
@@ -366,7 +347,7 @@ Scriptics (info@scriptics.com), NeoSoft (info@neosoft.com),
Computerized Processes Unlimited (gwl@cpu.com),
and Data Kinetics (education@dkl.com).
-10. Release organization
+11. Release organization
------------------------
The version numbers described below are available to Tcl scripts