terminal commands for sculptypaint> HELP

I can't get it to work..I'm "terminally ignorant"

is there a simpler and step by step explanation on how to do the terminal
CD commands to have sculptypaint work on Macs?

I'm on OSX 10.3.9 and here is the pdf file describing what to do with the terminal in order to be able to use sculptypaint on a Mac:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~elout/sculptpaint/


Thanks!

Nobody can tell you exactly what to type because it depends on where you put the files when you downloaded them. Here's some general help...

In terminal-speak, directories are your folders. All the folders you see on your desktop are directories. The cd command stands for "change directory".

When you open the terminal you are placed in your "home" directory, which if you were to be given instructions to find might look like this...

Macintosh HD -> Users -> Your User Name

When you've opened a terminal window, type "pwd" (without quotes) and it will tell you your current path (I think pwd stands for "print working directory". It'll look something like this...

/Users/Anya

Your Documents folder is here...

Macintosh HD -> Users -> Your User Name -> Documents

So, to navigate there you'd type

cd Documents

To see a list of files there, you'd type

ls

Let's say you've downloaded sculptypaint into a folder called Downloaded Stuff in your Documents folder. To get from your Documents folder into your Downloaded Stuff folder you'd type

cd "Downloaded Stuff"

Note that there are quotes around this directory name. That's necessary because there's a space in the name. Alternatively, you could use the tab-completion method mentioned in the scultypaint document. You'd type cd and a few letters of "Downloaded Stuff" and hit the tab key, and the terminal will will in the rest of the name, like this...

cd Downl[tabkey]

Terminal fills in for you...

cd Downloaded\ Stuff

It uses backslash before the space, which accomplishes the same thing as enclosing the name in quotes. Now type pwd and you'll get...

/Users/Anya/Documents/Downloaded Stuff

If that's where you put the sculptypaint files, you'd get to the sculptypaint directory by typing

cd sculptyp[tabkey]

Terminal fills in

cd sculptypaint07.app

Now if you type pwd it'll tell you

/Users/Anya/Documents/Downloaded Stuff/sculptypaint07.app

Wrapping it up, to get to this directory you'd type

cd Documents
cd Downl[tabkey]
cd sculptyp[tabkey]

Make sure you are in the right directory by typing pwd and it'll tell you

/Users/Anya/Documents/Downloaded Stuff/sculptypaint07.app

Now, according to the instructions, you type

chmod +R 777 *

That's geek-ese for "give everyone execute permissions on all files and subfolders".

If you put the files on your desktop, that'd be here (starting from your home directory)...

cd Desktop
cd sculptyp[tabkey]