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Quick links: Latest standalone Alphatk executable for Windows,
for MacOS X 10.2.x, and
.tar.gz for Unix.
On Windows and MacOS X (10.2 or newer), all you need is the standalone executable download. There are no external dependencies at all.
On Unix (with X-windows), you will usually have tcl/tk already installed (but you may wish to install a newer, faster version --- type 'wish' at the command line to start tcl/tk and then 'info patchlevel' if that works to find out which version you have). If you just have the 'tclsh' shell, that's not enough -- you need to have 'wish' as well. Binary releases are available here for Tcl/Tk 8.4.6. You may instead prefer to use a single-file 'TclKit' (which includes all of Tcl, Tk and ancilliary libraries), so that you do not need to install anything. You can get these from tclkit downloads (MacOS X version not yet available). Either way, I would suggest Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 or newer (and preferably something as recent as 8.4.5 or 8.5prerelease), since the newer releases are substantially faster than the older versions.
The ftp site for Alphatk is ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha /tcl/alphatk/, which you should check regularly --- I upload modified versions quite often, without any formal announcements (every 1-3 months I announce a new version on comp.lang.tcl, summarising the recent changes). Full release versions always have the version number in the name on this ftp site, and the latest development version is the only one without a version number. Some people have reported problems accessing this ftp site using certain ftp clients -- if you have a problem, please try something else (e.g. try with internet explorer, safari, mozilla, etc.).
Patches to the current Alphatk version, if any are available, can be downloaded with this link.
"MacUpdate" and "Version tracker" can be used to keep up to date with releases of Alphatk, via this link for windows and this one for MacOS X. If you'd like to review or comment on Alphatk, you can also do so there. It is also listed on linuxlinks.
A standalone executable for Windows alphatk8.3.exe, which requires no additional downloads at all.
A standalone executable for MacOS X, Alphatk8.3.dmg.gz, which requires no additional downloads at all. This is known to work on Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x). Older versions of MacOS X are not supported.
As a cross-platform starkit alphatk.kit, which requires the platform-specific TclKit executable for your platform from tclkit downloads.
As a compressed archive: Alphatk.zip, or alphatk.tar.gz . These require an installation of Tcl/Tk to be useful.
The final release of Alphatk 8.2 is available: A standalone executable for Windows alphatk8.2.exe, which requires no additional downloads at all. A standalone executable for MacOS X, Alphatk8.2.dmg, which requires no additional downloads at all. This is known to work on Jaguar (OS X 10.2.x). On OS X 10.1.5 you will have to download the Tcl,Tk.frameworks from sourceforge and use them instead of the ones which are in the '.dmg'. Sorry about that inconvenience (in addition the frameworks I distribute contain some improvements so that Alphatk runs faster and has a better gui). Finally, you can also use: Alphatk8.2.zip , or alphatk8.2. tar.gz . These will work with any version of Tcl/Tk 8.1 or newer. I suggest using Tcl 8.3.4 or newer, since Alphatk will try to make use of features available in the newer Tcl/Tk releases.
Older versions: The final release of Alphatk 8.1 is available: Alphatk8.1.zip , or alphatk8.1. tar.gz . It'll work with any version of Tcl/Tk 8.1 or newer. I suggest using Tcl 8.3.4 or newer, since Alphatk will try to make use of features available in the newer Tcl/Tk releases.
Older versions: Alphatk 8.0 can be downloaded from: Alphatk8.0.zip , or alphatk8.0. tar.gz . It'll work with any version of Tcl/Tk 8.1 or newer. Alphatk 7.3 releases are also available (for use with Tcl/Tk 8.0) but these are not recommended.
Alphatk makes use of the following packages if you have them installed:
Also note that versions of cat, diff for Windows are available in the same ftp directory as alphatk (but they are also distributed in Alphatk's 'Tools' directory).