[plt-scheme] newby question re upgrading Dr Scheme

From: Tim Hanson (tbhanson at gmx.de)
Date: Wed Sep 15 16:52:11 EDT 2004

thanks again, Paul.

just wanted you to know that this:

On Thursday, Sep 9, 2004, at 23:57 Europe/Berlin, Paul Snively wrote:

> ...I see from your follow-up that you have a permissions problem, 
> which is due to the fact that once you've authenticated the DrScheme 
> installer, it installs stuff as root. Ouch. With later versions of Mac 
> OS X you could use the Finder itself to correct the permissions 
> problem (yay!) for for now, download "Batchmod" 
> <http://macchampion.com/arbysoft>. Drop your DrScheme folder on it, 
> set it to operate recursively, and change all owners to your short 
> name, and the group to "staff." When that's done, run "Finish 
> Install." You'll be able to see it setting the PLT HOME path for all 
> sorts of things to its new home. Then you'll be good to go.

worked famously.

cheers,

Tim



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