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Bob Thrun wrote:Martin Heller's Toporobot is available only in a Mac version. He refuses to make a PC version.
If you are up to compiling your own copy of a progran, the Survex code is available. I do not know what you would do for graphics iwth it.
driggs wrote:Using Codeweavers CrossOver (free 30 day demo, $40 continued use), I've been able to successfully run both Walls and Compass on OS X 10.5.5. This, in my opinion, is unfortunately your best bet for running cave survey software on a Mac.
driggs wrote:Therion requires you to first successfully install Survex and MacTeX, then you must try to compile it from source. Good luck; there's a reason that they don't offer a binary download on the website.
driggs wrote:I recently made the switch to OS X (from Linux) so that I could run Adobe Illustrator, but have found the platform to be generally very poor as far as cave survey software goes (and I'm enough of a geek to attempt porting software to the OS myself). I now run all my actual survey software inside a Linux virtual machine (using the Free WINE software to run Walls and Compass), and use OS X for doing the actual map in Illustrator.
driggs wrote:Therion requires you to first successfully install Survex and MacTeX, then you must try to compile it from source.
driggs wrote:Good luck; there's a reason that they don't offer a binary download on the website.
driggs wrote:Hopefully someone will post with a more optimistic view than I have!
sluka wrote:driggs wrote:Good luck; there's a reason that they don't offer a binary download on the website.
The reason is simple, nobody had energy and time to finish it till now. It is free and open project. "Use it as it is or improve it."
Marlatt wrote:driggs wrote:I recently made the switch to OS X (from Linux) so that I could run Adobe Illustrator, but have found the platform to be generally very poor as far as cave survey software goes (and I'm enough of a geek to attempt porting software to the OS myself). I now run all my actual survey software inside a Linux virtual machine (using the Free WINE software to run Walls and Compass), and use OS X for doing the actual map in Illustrator.
Sounds like a great solution - any pointers or thinks to look out for?
driggs wrote:I'm a professional Unix software developer with 10 years experience using and contributing to Open Source software extensively. If I can't install Therion,
Dave wrote:yesOn 21 Apr 2009, at 15:46, Martin Sluka wrote:Hi, Dave,
do you use therion under MacOSX?
Martin
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