A few minutes ago, I made a post suggesting a work-around to a problem reported by a Mac user. My suggestion was an inherently horrible solution. That sort of line-by-line hackery is completely unsustainable. The real solution is that that fellow and his colleague should both be using the most recent version of Athena. If Athena and Artemis are to be supported on the Mac, then someone is going to have to find the time and willingness to maintain the Mac packaging. Joe Fowler did an amazingly generous thing when he made the MacPorts package, but Joe does not (to my knowledge) use Athena and Artemis for his own work. Someone who is invested in the use of the software simply has to step up. I myself have neither the resources nor the interest in doing so. If no one steps up, then there simply won't be support for my software on the Mac. B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS-II Building 743, Room 114 Upton NY, 11973 Homepage: http://bruceravel.github.io/home/ Software: https://github.com/bruceravel Demeter: http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/