ANNOUNCEMENT:  Matt Welsh, author of "The Linux Installation and
Getting Started Guide" and "Running Linux" , will be speaking at Gene's
books (genes1@netaxs.com) in the King of Prussia Mall (second floor) on
September 21st.  He'll be talking about his book "Running Linux" (this
is a must have for most Linux users).  You can find out more about the
talk from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/mdw/rltour.html.

Programming X11 with the Tcl/Tk toolkit.

Recently I wrote a Tcl/Tk script to present a nice point-and-click
interface to the mgetty+sendfax package.  I chose Tcl/Tk because
it's the simplest way to write X11 apps and it works well as an
extension language.  My user interface went pretty well.  Tcl/Tk is
certainly a good language for this sort of thing.  But there are
several problems with the language.  I discussed some of these at our
last meeting.

There are two good books on Tcl/Tk.  John Ousterhout, the man
responsible for tcl, wrote "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" which gives a nice
broad introduction to the language.  He also discusses the C interface
to Tcl/Tk in depth.  However, I like the reference-tutorial approach
taken by Brent B. Welch in his "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk".
Welch gives lots of advice on how to organize your code to overcome
several of the shortcomings in Tcl's design.

UNIX SIG notes:

Hmm, I haven't been thinking up good articles for the Data Bus this
summer.  I'll keep trying but if any other SIG members would like to
contribute to the Data Bus and the SIG, I'd like to talk with you
about it.

September meeting:  The first hour (11am-noon) we can have a general
Q & A.  The second hour (noon-1pm) I'll try to present something on
TCP/IP Internetworking.