What's Happening? HOW-TO

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Setting up the Communication-bar on MacOS (beta)

I'll be happy to set up your Mac to run this application (minimum system requirement: Mac OS 8.6 on a PowerPC) -- just email me for a time. For your reference, here are the steps:

Make sure that you have at least MacOS 8.6 (open the About this Computer in the apple menu in the Finder to find out). If you are using 8.5 or 8.5.1 on a G3, Tcl/Tk is not very stable with this particular setup, and I highly recommand you to upgrade (free) to 8.6 first. You may also want to check whether other MacOS patches are available for your system.
Start your FTP client (e.g. Fetch) and connect to any CoC Unix machine, then retrieve the file ~happen/mac/happening.sit.bin and decode/unpack it. This should create a happening folder on your local hard disk.
Create an alias of the same name to the Tool Command Language folder in the new happening folder in the Extentions folder in your System Folder (remove the old Tool Command Language folder/alias if it exists).
Launch the What's Happening? application executable which you'll find in the new happening folder.
Optional: To start the communication-bar every time the system starts up, make an alias to this file in the Startup Items folder in the System Folder on the startup disk.

Note: the ``What's Happening?'' communication-bar requires Netscape Communicator installed for Web browsing.