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I found that the instructions need slight modification: In step 
2, use tk...\mkd.bat for mkdir. Apart from that, these 
instructions work fine for me, now. I have made a binary 
release of tix8.1 for Python 2.3 at

http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/tix8.1.zip

The tix8184.dll goes to DLLs, the tix8.1 subdirectory goes to 
tcl. It differs from the standard tix8.1 subdirectory only in 
fixing the path to the DLLs directory.

To test whether this works, execute Demo/tix/tixwidgets.py.