I just googled it. Macports is an apple oriented project to port unix
and linux apps to the apple operating system. You download it in a
disk image and run in an installer. I think you may need to also
installer the apple developer tools which I believe would be on your
installation CD, but they would mention that on the macports webpage
if it were necessary.
Regards
Justin Harford
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell and
looked awhile, pondering his voyage
John Milton
Paradise Lost
On Jun 7, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Orin wrote:
Where do I get MacPorts at anyway?
On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Yo you should use maxima. it is a terminal based calculator. So
install macports, and then in the terminal type
sudo port install maxima
And it installs.
The whole thing is typing input from the keyboard. For my
chemistry what I would do is, write out the math operation in my
latex editor for typesetting, then i would copy and paste it into a
line that was commented out where I would change it to the syntax
that maxima likes. I then copy and paste it into terminal, run the
calculation, and write the answer in the line below in my latex
document. So basically I can keep track of the calculations that I
am doing.
Maxima rules!
Regards
Justin Harford
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell
and looked awhile, pondering his voyage
John Milton
Paradise Lost
On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Shaun Jones wrote:
Also for simple functions you can use spotlight.
On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Orin, you can indeed just type the numbers. I think you have to
be focussed on the display area, but that's where you start when
you open up the calculator.
Darcy
On 6-Jun-08, at 4:10 PM, Orin wrote:
Hey all,
Does anyone know where I can get a Calculator to type on, rather
than click on each of the buttons? I was doing a rather simple
operation that I really could've, should've done in my head this
morning. I didn't feel like it, and besides I wanted to give
this calculator a test run, since I haven't used it before, and
it disappointed me that there was no edit box to type the
numbers in.
Does anyone know a freeware app that can do this, or perhaps
Apple's Calculator can do it, I'm just not sure how to get the
edit box up?
Thanks.
