Installation - Mac

The Mac version is not as polished as the Windows version, but should be perfectly usable. Any problems are likely to be user interface glitches only, rather than the calculations. (A comprehensive test suite for the calculations passes on all systems.) I have also had reports of success running the Windows version on emulators for the Mac; speed is only likely to be an issue for the larger calculations (asymmetric tops, for example).

The website has the following file available:

• Intel: pgopher-MacOSX-i386.app.zip compiled for OS X Leopard (10.5) and above.
  

Simply double click on the zip file to produce the application that can be run in the normal way. The application is not signed, so more recent versions of OS X will give a security warning. In this case to run PGOPHER for the first time control click or right click on the PGOPHER icon and select "Open".  A PowerPC version is available on request.

Usage Notes

• Interactive fits are much easier with a two button mouse rather than a one button mouse or trackpad. (Right clicking is required, which can be done with a slightly awkward ctrl+click.)
• Some operations require the delete (not backspace) key. This is fn+backspace if your keyboard doesn't have a (forward) delete.
  

If the binary does not run on your system you may need to compile from source, or email help-pgopher@bristol.ac.uk.

The Help menu entries do not do anything at the moment, but the help files are available at http://pgopher.chm.bris.ac.uk/Help/ and a zip file containing the current help files can be downloaded from the website.