1 | Installing Survex on Mac OS X |
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4 | Next to the INSTALL file that you are currently reading is the Survex folder. |
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5 | To install, just drag this folder to your Applications folder (you will need to |
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6 | be logged in at an Administrator level to do this), or drag it to a folder |
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7 | under your home folder. |
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9 | The programs alongside Aven.app need to be run from the command-line (open |
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10 | Terminal.app): |
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12 | * extend produces extended elevations - this is probably the most useful of |
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13 | these command line tools. |
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15 | * cad3d turns .3d files into various formats, but Aven's "Export" function |
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16 | can do almost everything cad3d can, plus some extra formats. The main |
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17 | benefit of cad3d is that it can be easily used in scripts. |
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19 | * cavern processes survey data, but since version 1.2.3 you can process .svx |
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20 | files by simply opening them with Aven.app, so you no longer need to run |
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21 | cavern from the command line. As with cad3d, the main reason to run cavern |
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22 | directly is for use in scripts. |
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23 | |
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24 | * 3dtopos converts a .3d file to a .pos file. In Survex 1.2.19 and later, |
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25 | aven can export .pos files, so the main benefit of 3dtopos is that it can |
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26 | be easily used in scripts. |
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27 | |
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28 | * diffpos compares the positions of stations in two .3d, .pos, etc files. |
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30 | * sorterr sorts a .err file by a specified field. |
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32 | * dump3d dumps out a list of the items in a .3d file - it's mainly useful for |
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33 | debugging. |
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35 | Known shortcomings specific to the Mac OS X version of Survex |
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38 | These could be reproduced with Survex 1.2.19 when built using wxWidgets 3.0.2: |
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40 | * On OS X, usually you can push the mouse pointer against the top of the |
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41 | screen to get the menu bar to appear, but this doesn't seem to work for |
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42 | aven. As a workaround, aven detects if you're trying to do this and |
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43 | drops out of full-screen mode, which isn't perfect but beats being stuck |
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44 | in full screen mode. |
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