To Install:

Provided you have Tcl/Tk installed, you don't have to do anything!
Place the downloaded hierarchy wherever you like.  Then just
double-click on 'alphatk.tcl' to run Alphatk.  To open a document with
Alphatk do: 'wish runalpha.tcl document'.

On Unix systems, you may wish to rename or make a symlink to alphatk.tcl
called 'alphatk', and make the file executable.  Then a simple 'alphatk'
will run everything.

You should have Tcl 8.1 or newer installed.  You can get the latest Tcl
distribution from <http://dev.scriptics.com/>.  Alphatk makes heavy use
of new features in Tcl 8.2 and even Tcl 8.3 (and Tcl 8.4), which
generally means it will be faster and more user-friendly if you
upgrade.  Alphatk is generally kept up to date with the latest Tcl/Tk
release (e.g. Tcl8.4a4 as of September 6th 2001).  Since such development
releases can have incompatibilities between releases, for example 8.4a3 may
be incompatible with 8.4a2, we strongly suggest that if you do use a 
development release, that you use the very latest such release.

Alphatk makes use of some standard Tcl extensions (TclX, ftp, tkdnd, tclvfs)
if you have them available.  Some of these are also packaged with Alphatk
(in the Tclextensions directory in the distribution).

Optional extras:

Alphatk can be localised!  Currently there is only a British english
locale provided which modifies a few spellings from the American
default.  However, by setting the locale in the 'International'
preferences dialog, and by creating locale files (in the Localisation
directory), you will be able to modify all of Alphatk's menus, dialogs
etc.

Alphatk comes with documentation (in its Help menu).