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
Head of Department of Informatics
School of Informatics and Engineering
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown Road North
Blanchardstown
Dublin 15
email: brian.nolan at itb.ie
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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 <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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