Ok, StuffIt automatically gunzipped it, giving a file which I moved to Applications and renamed "boincSETI." I then did the following:
- run terminal
- go to Applications folder (using cd command)
- type in "chmod +x boincSETI" which seems to work fine
- type "boincSETI"

I get the response "boincSETI: command not found." Uh, what am I missing. A step-by-step writeup for MacOSX newbies would be excellent. I only know the Windows world.

Try ./boincSETI (That's a dot & slash in front of the command name.)

It's a Unix thing whenever the command is not part of the path environment variable.

Jerry

Hi
Just enter

exec /Applications/boincSETI

as the last command instead of just

boincSETI

Yeah ... I'm sure if I lived and breathed command-line I'd be a much better person, but ... after giving up on the mensa-friendly suggestions here and in other threads, I control-clicked on the new SETI application, selected Terminal using the "open with" command in the resulting contextual menu ... and it all started happening. Gotta love that, as the Americans say.

PS I had already unstuffed (or ungzipped) the gz file and renamed it 'SETI' before dropping it into the Applications folder.

Thanks for the idea mikldean. I knew that, why didn't I think of doing it? Now ya see, that's what happens when a normally intelligent guy is in UNIX Terminal Panic Mode! :D

what I did was dl the boinc for mac os x then go to terminal to run gunzip the file then rename it to boincSETI the icon change to executable icon and dragged to Application folder then double-clicked the icon and it started up the terminal and ran... that's it.