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Keywords: general
Summary of features special to the Mac OS X version.

MacAnova for Macintosh OS X is built using Carapace (see help topic
'carapace'), so all of the Carapace features are present on the
Macintosh.

Menus are slightly different on Mac OS X to conform with standard
Macintosh guidelines.  In particular, the About menu item and the
Quit menu item are under the program menu rather than the Help and
File menus.

The standard search paths in DATAPATHS include a "user" directory
(folder) and an "application" directory (see topic 'DATAPATHS').  On
Mac OS X, the user directory is "~/Library/Application Support/MacAnova"
where ~ is the user's home directory.  The application directory is the
SharedSupport folder that came with MacAnova; it must be in the same
folder as the MacAnova application.

MacAnova reads from  many files (macros, help, etc.).  For example,
MacAnova.mac.txt is the standard macro file.  If you put your own
modified copy of MacAnova.mac.txt into the user directory, then
MacAnova will read from your file instead of its own copy, because
the user directory comes before the application directory in the
search order.


Gary Oehlert 2005-08-12