Stefano, I'm very confused. Please help me understand what does and does not work for you. Today you said:
2) If I just type 'ifeffit' from the command line I get the following:
stefano% ifeffit
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libpgplot.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/ifeffit Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap
Emmanuelle seems to have similar behavior. Of course, you know that this means that no ifeffit applications will run correctly. The messages you sent yesterday implied very strange permission problems and was definitely different than this. What changed? Has the ifeffit command-line program EVER worked for you? Really, I hope this question illustrates my confusion about what does and does not work for you. But you also said today:
just to let people know that for me (OSX 10.4.5) Athena works fine after installation from ifeffit-1.2.8-Mac10.4.1_pkg.dmg
OK... so Ifeffit and athena work??? That is very confusing. It also seems to be very different from Emmanuelle's experience. Hmmm. Then again, if Ifeffit and athena do work, what is the problem you're having? --Matt