UltraScan download - Mac OS-X Installation Notes

On some systems it has been reported that first-time installations of Mac OSX versions of UltraScan may abort with a segmentation fault. If this happens to you, the following issue may be at fault:

During initialization, UltraScan attempts to write a default configuration file into the root of your home directory, called ~/.usrc, which contains basic path information, font information, version information etc. If the file does not exist yet, the program may crash during the bootstrap process of creating the file that contains information UltraScan needs to run. One way to get around this problem is to create this file beforehand. Simply open a text editor and supply the following lines in the order shown, then save the file in your home directory under the name "~/.usrc":

7.1
/usr/bin/mozilla
/usr/bin/tar
/usr/bin/gzip
/Users/my_account/ultrascan/doc
/Users/my_account/us/data
/Users/my_account/us
/Users/my_account/us/archive
/Users/my_account/us/results
0
0
/Users/my_account/us/reports
/usr/lib/ultrascan
Helvetica
12
10
(version number of UltraScan)
(path to your documentation browser)
(path to tar binary)
(path to gzip binary)
(path to UltraScan documentation files)
(path to experimental XLA/I data file directory)
(path to user's ultrascan root)
(path to UltraScan data analysis archive files)
(path to UltraScan data analysis result files)
(leave set at zero)
(leave set at zero)
(path to UltraScan html data analysis reports)
(path to system installation of UltraScan)
(font face)
(font size)
(margin in pixels of plot frame)

The sample file shown above can be downloaded here. After you get UltraScan running, go to "File:Configuration" and use the graphical user interface to make further adjustments and changes.


www contact: Borries Demeler

This document is part of the UltraScan Software Documentation distribution.
The latest version of this document can always be found at:

    http://www.ultrascan.uthscsa.edu