[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 31, 7:43 pm, dwb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm so sorry - my big mistake was to not continue reading in the > readme file. I was so stuck on step 3 that I never noticed that step 4 > was exactly what I needed to do. Not only that, but just now I didn't > even make it all the way throug

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread dwb
I'm so sorry - my big mistake was to not continue reading in the readme file. I was so stuck on step 3 that I never noticed that step 4 was exactly what I needed to do. Not only that, but just now I didn't even make it all the way through step 4 - I browsed a bit for Terminal, then used the search

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread mabshoff
Hi, rereading your initial email and thinking about the problem is the following: When I double-click on the sage icon, instead of getting the dialog only half visible and glossed over in the video, I get one that says: There is no default application specified to open the document "sage". (Canc

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread dwb
Perhaps the video only applies to OS X.5, in which case it should be so labeled. Perhaps the dialog box which appears in the video should be brought fully into view and discussed rather than glossed over. Perhaps the video could be made more encompassing, since currently it seems to assume things

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread mabshoff
Hi, > >  It is unclear to me what you want us to do? Could you clarify? > > I think he is suggesting to whoever creates the Mac binaries to modify > the README file > to make it easier to use for the first-time user. Maybe the poster could be > more > specific about the exact words he would su

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:24 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 30, 5:07 pm, dwb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using a Mac Book running OS X.4.11. I downloaded sage-2.10.3- > > osx10.4-intel-i386-Darwin.dmg, then followed the instructions in both > > the readme file

[sage-support] Re: Sage on Mac - an Odyssey

2008-03-31 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 30, 5:07 pm, dwb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using a Mac Book running OS X.4.11. I downloaded sage-2.10.3- > osx10.4-intel-i386-Darwin.dmg, then followed the instructions in both > the readme file and the video tutorial. When I double-click on the > sage icon, instead of getting the