How to use MMA with Mac OS X 10.3

Thanks to Jeff Balvanz, the following should help you get MMA running on your Mac. Jeff's suggestions are specific to OS X 10.3, but should work on any of the more current Macs.
  1. Unpack the application tarball and cd to the resulting directory.

  2. Become root with the su command. (Mac OS doesn't normally activate the root user, you have to turn it on in the Netinfo Manager. Search Mac OS Help for the phrase "Enabling the root user" for more info.)

  3. Type ./install to run the installation script.

  4. Being a Linuxish thing, the install script puts mma in the /usr/local/bin directory, which is perfectly legitimate in Mac OS but not in the path. Put a symbolic link to the program into the /sw/bin directory with the command:

    ln -s /usr/local/bin/mma /sw/bin/mma

    Now the program will work from Terminal as advertised in the documentation. The resulting .mid files will play with the Quicktime Player and can either be double-clicked from the Finder or opened with the command:

    open filename.mid

Updates, error reports, and kudos appreciated.