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Appendix
Resources
The main page of Tcl developers is the Tcl Developer Xchange.
Download a free binary ActiveTcl distribution at ActiveState.
The main USENET forum dedicated to this language is news:comp.lang.tcl.
In German, there's also http://www.self-tcl.de/forum for questions and answers
The main user wiki is The Tclers Wiki.
The Tclers' Chat can provide quick response to questions: Jabber all.tclers.tk:5222, IRC freenode #tcl, or Webchat http://mini.net/cgi-bin/chat.cgi (all of the three being relayed between each other)
The Tcl man pages can be found here.
The Tk man pages can be found here.
Documentation on Tcllib, the Tcl standard library is here.
There is a tutorial for Tcl here.
For Web development, there are:
pure-Tcl Web servers like Tclhttpd, which can be embedded in your Tcl-enabled applications to provide Web-based interfaces,
Tcl-based Web servers like AOLServer, which are much faster than their pure-Tcl cousins and able to support a heavy load, and
Tcl Web server modules (see Apache Tcl for examples) that enable Tcl Web applications with bog-standard Web servers.
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