I discovered that wbarconf is killed on a pentium laptop under TCL 4.4. I can't say whether this was true of earlier versions (as this is my first installation (and first forum post)).
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tc@gnomad:~$ wbarconf
Illegal instruction
tc@gnomad:~$ file `which wbarconf`
/usr/local/bin/wbarconf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.22, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
tc@gnomad:~$ uname -a
Linux gnomad 3.0.21-tinycore #3021 SMP Sat Feb 18 11:54:11 EET 2012 i586 i586 i386 GNU/Linux
tc@gnomad:~$ md5sum -b `which wbarconf`
88cfe29d65f74b263ae438080572b675 */usr/local/bin/wbarconf
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cbp
edit: added the MD5 digest