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

[John Carroll]

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 <J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk> 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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