Invoking the scriptengine

After succesful installation of the TKS package, the scriptengine can be executed by issueing

```
$ /path/to/tks <sourcefile[.tkx]>
```

on a shell or by clicking on a TKX1 file in a file resp. web browser.

A MIME handler for the TKX datatype is automatically registered by the tks-setup.exe installer.

The TKS executable contains both runtime environment and compiler for script applications. A separate compiler run, which is required by real programming languages like C++, Java and C# is not needed. This makes it possible to run an application on different platforms without repackaging the distributable archive.

To take your first steps with TKS you may create a text-file called test.tks containing

loop (10) trace "tks says hello, world.";

and execute it by issueing

```
$ tks test 
```
or
```
$ tks test.tks
```

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