[lkb] Re: Graphical LKB on Mac OSX <--IT works !!

John,

Got it....loads fine on my iBook and looks pretty good.

Had to remember to save the .sitx file in the webpage to my desktop.

Many thanks....again,

best regards,
brian
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Dr. Brian Nolan
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School of Informatics and Engineering
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
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On 30 Aug 2005, at 15:39, John Carroll wrote:

> Roussanka,
>
> Yes, there is a newer version of Macintosh OSX LKB available, at  
> http://lingo.stanford.edu/ftp/stable/
>
> Installation instructions are at  
> http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/LkbInstallation . With this new version,  
> you no longer have to do the (defun lkb::lkb-tmp-dir nil #P"Macintosh  
> HD:Users:myname:Documents:tmp:") thing described below.
>
> John
>
> On 26 Aug 2005, at 09:55, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there a newer version of LKB for MAC OSX? I'm starting again a  
>> course with LKB and it oud be good to get the latest version on my  
>> MAC. LKB-5.4beta did finely for small grammars with little MRS, but I  
>> would like to try some more.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Roussanka
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, John Carroll wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>>>>  John Carroll <[email protected]> has kindly provided a  
>>>>> working image to me last year that is still available at
>>>>> http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/carroll/LKB 
>>>>> -5.4beta- runtime.sitx
>>>
>>> Erich,
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing Brian at this Mac version. Sometime soon I will  
>>> get a link to it added to the LKB web pages. Roussanka: there's the  
>>> address above for you to download it. Some additional info below.
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely happy with this version, since at least for me it  
>>> sometimes starts up as an old-style System 9 application (with  
>>> degraded performance) inside OS X -- I think this happens if Classic  
>>> is running at the time. I'd like to fix this, and will let you know  
>>> if I do.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> ------
>>> Use Stuffit Expander to unpack the .sitx file, or just double-click  
>>> it. Double-click on the file LKB-5.4beta-runtime to start up the  
>>> LKB. It's set to run in 400MB memory, but you could probably reduce  
>>> this if you're just running the LKB with small grammars.
>>>
>>> Immediately after the LKB starts, redefine the function  
>>> lkb::lkb-tmp-dir -- to something like the following:
>>>
>>> (defun lkb::lkb-tmp-dir nil #P"Macintosh  
>>> HD:Users:myname:Documents:tmp:")
>>>
>>> (type this in the "Listener" window and hit return; you will get a  
>>> warning which is fine). This assumes your hard disk is called  
>>> "Macintosh HD" and your username is "myname". You also need to  
>>> create this folder ("tmp" in your Documents folder).
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Roussanka
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