WiKit and TclKit were designed to run out-of-the-box, with no installation or configuration whatsoever. This goes beyond what you are probably used to with software applications as elaborate as WiKit.
Enough said, let's get you started:
Welcome to WiKit!
You can put "tclkit" anywhere on your $PATH, it's just a runtime. The file "wikit.tkd" is an executable "scripted document" (containing all the scripts as well as a database with all the pages), and typing just "wikit.tkd" (or "./wikit.tkd") should also work. In fact, you can put "wikit.tkd" anywhere on your $PATH as well.
WiKit does not require Tcl/Tk or MetaKit [L2 ] to be installed on your system - nor does it care if they are (or will be, one day). Everything is wrapped up inside the TclKit standalone excutable. To uninstall WiKit: delete these two files again. To use this on another machine: move them. If it's a different platform: switch to the proper TclKit runtime and move only the "wikit.tkd" file.
That's all there is to it.
Not quite. I have downloaded tclkit-8.4-20 for solaris and the empty Wikit from [L3 ]. I follow the directions above. I launch wikit.tkd and edit it. I close it. I try to open wikit.tkd again and get a "Segmentation Fault".
Next, I try the TclKit 8.4 for Mac. It does the same thing; the edited wikit.tkd file crashes the TclKit. It seems that the wikit.tkd can only be opened once. Am I missing something obvious? - Donavan Hall, [L4 ]
April 2001: This problem was resolved recently (after 8.4-20) - on Solaris and Mac, the byte order differs from the system on which WiKit was created. There was a bug in the MetaKit 2.3.3 beta, which did not convert properly. New builds of TclKit work, there's a Solaris build at [L5 ], but I have no new Mac binary to point you to yet. Once the wikit has been used on a big-endian machine, it will work with 8.4-20 too, btw. Be sure to use a fresh copy of wikit, because the bug in 8.4-20 actually *damages* the datafile...