[daip] How to install or compile ORFIT for Mac OS?

[Eric Greisen]

Zhang Bo wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:27 -0600, Eric Greisen wrote:
> 
>> I had not intended for these to be truely public.  I have now compiled 
>> the program under a variety of architectures.  Copy the 
>> ORFIT.EXE.architecture of your machine (probably macint) to ORFIT.EXE in 
>> your machine.
> 
> Thanks for your rapid reply. Would you please tell me where to copy the
> ORFIT.EXE.macint? Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Bo
> 
>> Eric Greisen
>>
You have two choices:

1. If you are the only user of this installation, pick a directory 
("folder") on your computer and assign an environment variable to it in 
your login.  The copy ORFIT.EXE.macint to this area renaming it simple 
ORFIT.EXE.  Also copy the help file to that same area.  To run it
set the adverb VERSION to the environment variable.  I use a work area I 
call $MYWORK so I set VERSION='MYWORK' to run test programs located there.

2. The alternative - more friendly to other users - is to copy
ORFIT.EXE.macint to $AIPS_ROOT/31DEC09.MACINT/LOAD/ORFIT.EXE
and copy the help file to $AIPS_ROOT/31DEC09/HELP/ORFIT.HLP.
Then you will not need to do any setting of VERSION (= ' ').

Eric Greisen