The files tcl-7.4-aout.tar.gz and tk-4.0-aout.tar.gz are binary-only
distributions of TCL 7.4 and Tk 4.0 by Dr. John Ousterhout. I made almost
no changes to the source code except to add flags for compiling for 
shared libraries. The original source can be ftp'd from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
in the /ucb/tcl directory.

David Engel posted elf versions of these libraries on sunsite earlier, but
since elf development environments are (currently) reserved for the more
intrepid Linux user, I have made these a.out versions availible. David
also chose to put everything in /usr/local, which I disagree with :)
You can consider these files to be drop-in replacements for the standard
Slackware libraries, for example. Since most configure scripts look
for these things in standard places, and tcl / tk are fairly widely used,
I dont think they belong in /usr/local.

In the Slackware Linux distribution, someone, in their infinite wisdom,
decided to name the shared versions of tcl/tk with the crazee version
number of 3.6!!! I have completely ignored whis, and have made the
version numbers 7.4.0 and 4.0.0 for TCL and Tk respectively. As and when
TCL and Tk are patched, I will increase the patch level and make 7.4.1
and 4.0.1 etc. I think it makes MUCH more sense to keep the shared library
version numbers in sync with the package version numbers.

Anyway, use these if you wish, ignore them if you dont. Happy hacking :)

J. Kean Johnston
jkj@paradigm.co.za