--- In slope_soaring_sim@yahoogroups.com, Markus Soick <Markus@...> wrote:
>
> Hiho!
>
> > You need to change directory to the location where you extracted those
> > files:
> >
> > cd /Documents
>
>
> There is no directory /Documents on a mac. His path is wrong. E.g.
> the Documents-Folder of User "tim" is /Users/tim/Documents.
>
> But wait, there is a much easier way for switching to the correct
> directory.
>
> - Type "cd " in the terminal without the quotes. Be sure to type a
> space after the letters "c" and "d".
> - Drag the sss-directory onto the terminal-window: The path to this
> directory is automatically typed.
> - Type Return in the terminal window.
>
> Bye, MarkusS.
> --
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Macs work better
> than PCs... But you'd be a fool not to follow their lead. -- Sanjay S
> Vakil, graduate student, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Dept.
>

I'm having similar problems in getting past this point in the start-up on my
mac. This is the first time I have tried to use Terminal and so far
I really don't get what I'm doing wrong. I have typed "cd " without the quotes
and then dragged the sss-2.19.2 folder onto the terminal
window to bring up the path, then pressed Return. When I then typed ./sss and
Return I repeatedly get the following message:
-bash: ./sss: No such file or directory

I get a little further if I go back and type "cd " then drag the
"osx-sss-0.10.sitx Folder" (from inside the "sss-2.19.2" folder) into the
terminal
window to bring up a different path, then press Return. Typing in ./sss then
brings up the following message instead, but still no start-up:
Opened log file: sss.log
Slope Soaring Simulator (v2.19.0) - Copyright 2006 Danny Chapman
SSS by Danny Chapman:
sss@...
SSS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the GNU General Public License

Can't open sss.cfg
Can't open sss.cfg
Assert success at config.cpp:178
Unable to open config file
SSS has crashed. If you don't think this was your fault, please
try to reproduce the problem by running with sss_debug.cfg and
send an email containing the contents of this window, the file sss.log
plus any other info (like what you were doing when this happened) to
flight@.... Thank you, and sorry!
Press 'c <RET>' to continue (bad idea!) or 'q <RET>' to exit SSS.

I'm sorry but I don't understand enough about Terminal to know whether I am
making some mistake with the commands I'm using, or
whether I have stuffed up the folder hierarchy I am using.

Any ideas on what is going wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks for any help.