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Installation Notes

Versions

MacSpice 2.10 is available as a Universal Application for OS 10.4 and later, and a PowerPC application for OS 10.3 and later. These, and versions for earlier version of Mac OS, are available from the Downloads section of the MacSpice website.

Install MacSpice

  1. Read the Copyright and Licensing information and confirm that the terms are acceptable to you before proceeding to install MacSpice. In particular, note that MacSpice is released with no warranty whatsoever and anyone who uses it does so at their own risk.

  2. Place a copy of the MacSpice application in the '/Applications' folder.

  3. MacSpice keeps its support folders 'lib', 'examples', etc. folders in 'Library:MacSpice:' and will search for this folder in the following order at startup:

    1. User Domain, i.e. ~:Library:MacSpice:
    2. Local Domain, i.e. Library:MacSpice:
    3. Network Domain, i.e. Network:Library:MacSpice:

    If none of these exist, MacSpice creates ~:Library:MacSpice:. To persuade MacSpice to update the contents of its Library folder, rename or delete the existing one.

    A user may override the Local/Network domain defaults by opening Terminal.app and using the commands:

    • cd /Applications/MacSpice.app/Contents/Resources/
    • ditto -rsrc MacSpice/ ~/Library/MacSpice/

  4. Launch the MacSpice application.

    At startup, the current directory ':' is set to '~:Documents:MacSpice:' which is created if it doesn't exist. If this can't be created, or used, for some reason ':' defaults to '~:Documents:'

    If folders/files aren't found they are created in the current user domain.

  5. Administrators of multiuser systems may wish to move '~:Library:MacSpice:' to the Local or Network domain in order to define institutional defaults.

  6. Administrators of mass-deployments may wish to set SUIgnoreChecks in CDHW.MacSpice.plist which will prevent unauthorised users wasting time attempting to update the application.

  7. I recommend you install TextWrangler, the excellent freeware editor from Bare Bones Software and then set it as the MacSpice editor.

  8. For further information and updates refer to the MacSpice website.

Uninstall MacSpice

Preserve any user-created files and then move the following to the Trash:

  1. The MacSpice application 'Applications:MacSpice.app'
  2. The 'MacSpice' folder which MacSpice originally created in '~:Library:'
  3. The preferences file '~:Library:Preferences:CDHW.MacSpice.plist'