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Starting to use analog on a Mac
When you download the Mac version of analog, it should unpack itself. (If it
doesn't, you might have to run StuffIt Expander on it). You should then find
in the analog directory a configuration file called analog.cfg
and the analog application itself, as well as the Readme, the
Licence (which you must read and agree to before
using analog) and a couple of other files. When you double-click on the analog
icon, it will run in its own window, and produce an output file called
Report.html. (For help in interpreting the output, see
What the results mean.)
The window will then close if there weren't any warning messages, or stay open
for you to read them if there were.
You can configure analog by putting commands in the configuration file,
analog.cfg. One command you will need straight away is
LOGFILE logfilename # to set where your logfile lives
The logfile must be stored locally -- analog won't use FTP or HTTP to fetch
it from the internet. There's a sample logfile supplied with the program.
There's a list of basic commands later in the
Readme. Also there are a few to get you started in the configuration file
already, but there are lots of others available. You can read about all the
commands in the section on customising analog.
Another way to start analog is to drag a logfile onto the analog icon, in which
case analog will try to analyse it, or drag a configuration file onto the
icon, in which case analog will use the commands in that configuration file.
(Analog detects whether it's a configuration file or a logfile by whether
it starts with a # or not.) This enables you to create different
reports without having two copies of the application.
One note: on other platforms, there is another way to give options, via
command line arguments. You'll see these mentioned in this Readme from time
to time, but the Mac doesn't have a command line, so ignore these.
If you want to compile your own version of analog (it's written in C), or
just to read the source code, it's available from the
analog home page.
(It's the same source code for all versions).
Stephen Turner
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