[protege-discussion] protege on a mac

[Samson Tu]

Rich Morin wrote:
> At 6:58 AM -0700 9/29/06, Victor Manuel wrote:
>> I am trying to run two instances of protege ...
...
>   *  Find a command version of Protege
> 
>      If Protege has a version that can be started from
>      the command line (and, say, runs under X11), you
>      might be able to start up multiple instances of
>      that.  However, you would need to build (and maybe
>      port) the program first.

Run the run_protege.applescript in the Protege installation directory as 
many times as you want to. It gives you a trace window similar to the 
one in Windows too.

> 
> One possible difficulty with both of these approaches is
> that an instance of Protege may have resources that it
> assumes are reserved for its use.  This might be a file,
> a database, etc.  If two instances try to use such a
> resource at the same time, things will get confused.
> You'll have to find out from the Protege folks, however,
> whether this is actually a problem.

Not a problem.

SAmson

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