What: PRS Open Source Software Where: http://www.prs.de/int/products/tcltkres/rtl/ http://www.prs.de/int/products/tcltkres/printerdll/ '''links broken''' at 20050830 Description: PRS has several Tcl/Tk downloadable items that are open source and free to use. RTL is a runtime library collection of often used complex widgets which reduces the effort for developing sophisticated platform independant applications. It includes a scrollable grid, input combobox, multiple column listbox, spinbox widget, shell widget, tree widget, and preferences widget. printerdll is an extension to let you print the contents of a Windows NT window. Updated: 09/2001 Contact: mailto:ernst.von.voigt@prs.de ---- [LV] however, if you use the search engine at http://www.prs.de/, you will find hits on RTL, including pointers to a download area. I suggest that in cases where people find broken links on a page, that if it is something you really want, just email the company and see if they have moved the item. Another possibily is using that www archive site - do we have a reference to it here on the wiki? ''[escargo] 30 Aug 2005'' - I did not find pointers to a download area when I did a search at their site (at least, not for RTL specifically). I also found references to a VisualGIPSY GUI designer released as open source in 2000. We really ought to find a home for open source code that gets lost because the original developers abandon it (for whatever reason). (Of course, if too much bit rot sets in, it wouldn't be much good, but one can hope.) I have used the ''Wayback Machine'' at http://www.archive.org/ to find some past pages, but I don't recall where I made the link. Here's what the Wayback Machine found: http://web.archive.org/web/20030622100705/http://www.prs.de/int/products/tcltkres/rtl/ Interesting the page title is "VisualGIPSY: RunTime Library". The last date the page was recorded was October, 2004, but the copyright date on the page itself is 2000. [LV] I'm surprised that the wayback machine doesn't change internal references to copies of the referenced pages that were there at the same time as the snapshot of the page. By that I mean when I go to the archive.org link above, the download area link still points at prs.de, and the page does not exist. ''[escargo] 30 Aug 2005'' - I think the reason that the Wayback Machine does not ''automatically'' update relative links is that it is not guessing which version of the link you want to follow. I agree though, it would make sense for it to automatically make the links relative to the current page. ---- [Category Package]